COGNITIVE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PERCEPTION OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL EVENTS, 129
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Edited By G. Aschersleben, Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Leopoldstrasse 24, 80802 Munich, Germany. T. Bachmann, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, King Henry I Street, Portsmouth PO1 2DY, UK. J. Müsseler, Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Leopoldstrasse 24, 80802 Munich, Germany.
Description The book is concerned with the cognitive contributions to perception, that is, with the influence of attention, intention, or motor processes
on performances in spatial and temporal tasks. The chapters deal with fundamental perceptual processes resulting from the simple localization
of an object in space or from the temporal determination of an event within a series of events. Chapters are based on presentations
given at the Symposium on the Cognitive Contributions to the Perception of Spatial and Temporal Events (September 7–9,
1998, Ohlstadt, Germany). Following each chapter are commentary pieces from other researchers in the field. At the meeting, contributors
were encouraged to discuss their theoretical positions along with presenting empirical results and the book's commentary sections help
to preserve the spirit and controversies of the symposium. The general topic of the book is split into three parts. Two sections
are devoted to the perception of unimodal spatial and temporal events; and are accompanied by a third part on spatio-temporal processes
in the domain of intermodal integration.
The themes of the book are highly topical. There is a growing interest in studies both with
healthy persons and with patients that focus on localization errors and dissociations in localizations resulting from different tasks.
These errors lead to new concepts of how visual space is represented. Such deviations are not only observed in the spatial domain but
in the temporal domain as well. Typical examples are errors in duration judgments or synchronization errors in tapping tasks. In addition,
several studies indicate the influence of attention on both the timing and on the localization of dynamic events. Another intriguing
question originates from well-known interactions between intermodal events, namely, whether these events are based on a single representation
or whether different representations interact.
Audience
For researchers in psychology and cognitive science with an interest in perception and time.
Contents Cognitive Contributions to the Perception of Spatial and Temporal Events: Editors' Introduction.
Cognitive Contributions to the
Perception of Spatial Events a) Action-Oriented Views. Separate Representations of Visual Space for Perception and Visually
Guided Behavior (B. Bridgeman). The new dissociationism: implications for action. Commentary on Bridgeman (P. Haggard). On the Perception
of Position (A.H.C. Van der Heijden et al.). Function and processing of "meaningless" and "meaningful" position. Commentary
on Van der Heijden et al. (P. Wolff). Space Perception and Intended Action (P. Wolff). The limits of an occasionalist Gibsonian
theory of perceptual space. Commentary on Wolff (H. Hecht). Cognition and Spatial Perception: Production of Output or Control of Input?
(J. Scott Jordan). Efference copy and intention: old wine in new bottles? Commentary on Jordan (B. Bridgeman). Motor Determinants of
a Unified World Perception (J. Paillard). A motor theory again? Commentary of Paillard (A.H.C. Van der Heijden). Can we explain cross-modal
representation with neural algorithms alone? Commentary on Paillard (M.A. Elliott). How Independent from Action Control is Perception?
An Event-Coding Account for More Equally-Ranked Crosstalks (J. Müsseler). Induction and impairment during event control: a means
of resolving the perception-action distinction? Commentary on Müsseler (J. Scott Jordan).
Cognitive Contributions to the
Perception of Spatial Events b) Attention-Oriented Views. Effects of Attention on Length Perception, Gap Detection and Visual
Localization. Towards a Theory of Attentional Receptive Fields (Yehoshua Tsal). About neural implementation and microgenesis. Commentary
on Tsal (T. Bachmann). Twelve Spatiotemporal Phenomena and One Explanation (T. Bachmann). Pertentional retouch, selective attention and
synchronicity priming. Commentary on Bachmann (H.J. Müller, M.A. Elliott).
Cognitive Contributions to the Perception of
Temporal Events. Perceived Timing of Self-Initiated Actions (P. Haggard). Mental chronometry and the timing of "high level"
conscious intentions. Commentary on Haggard (D. Zakay). Action Timing in an Isochronous Tapping Task. Evidence from Behavioral Studies
and Neuroimaging (K. Müller et al.). The negative asynchrony phenomenon: a prospective timing perspective. Commentary on
Müller et al. (D. Zakay, R.A. Block). What is the source of the mean anticipatory synchronization error during temporal
tracking? Commentary on Müller et al. (D. O'Boyle). Reaction Time and Temporal-Order Judgment as Measures of Perceptual
Latency: The Problem of Dissociations (P. Jaśkowski). Reaction time and temporal order judgment: two measures of perceptual latency?
Commentary on Jaśkowski (C. Steglich). Characterising perceptual latency. Commentary on Jaśkowski (D. O'Boyle). Task-Dependent
Timing of Perceptual Events (G. Aschersleben). Some remaining problems on temporal dissociations. Commentary on Aschersleben (P. Jaśkowski).
40-Hz-Synchronicity Priming of Kanizsa-Figure Detection Demonstrated by a Novel Psychophysical Paradigm (H.J. Müller, M.A. Elliott).
Is 40 Hz synchronicity priming shown by a novel psychophysical paradigm indeed a 40 Hz phenomenon? Commentary on Müller & Elliott
(K. Müller).
Cognitive Contributions to the Perception of Intermodal Events. Ventriloquism: A Case of Crossmodal
Perceptual Grouping (P. Bertelson). The advantages and limitations of the psychophysical staircases procedure in the study of intersensory
bias. Commentary on Bertelson (R.B. Welch). Meaning, Attention, and the "Unity Assumption" in the Intersensory Bias of Spatial and Temporal
Perceptions (R.B. Welch). Ventriloquism and the nature of the unity decision. Commentary on Welch (J. Vroomen). The Development of Temporal
and Spatial Intermodal Perception (D.J. Lewkowicz). On the asymmetry of the temporal contiguity window. Commentary on Lewkowicz (G. Aschersleben).
Seeing Cries and Hearing Smiles: Crossmodal Perception of Emotional Expressions (B. de Gelder et al.). Crossmodal perception
and the function of emotion. Commentary on de Gelder et al. (H. Hecht). Author index. Subject index.
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