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.
Included in series
Advances in Psychology
Audience:
For researchers in psychology and cognitive science with an interest in perception and time.
