Perception: A Very Short Introduction

基本信息

作者: Brian Rogers

Series: Very Short Introductions

Paperback: 184页

出版社: Oxford University Press (2017年10月26日)

语种: 英语

ISBN: 9780198791003                                                   

产品尺寸及重量: 113 x 174 x 15 (mm) | 138g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准 

书籍简介

知觉是心理学领域最古老、研究最深入的课题之一，同时也提出了一些深刻的哲学问题。它涉及到我们如何利用到达感官的信息来引导和控制我们的行为，以及如何创造我们对周围世界的特殊的、主观的体验。

在本书中，布赖恩·罗杰斯讨论了感知意味着什么的哲学问题，以及描述了我们如何能够感知物体和场景的特殊特征，如亮度、颜色、形式、深度和运动。然而，我们所感知的并不总是与世界上存在的事物相一致，正如罗杰斯所表明的，对幻觉的研究可以帮助我们了解我们知觉过程的性质和局限性。罗杰斯还从进化的角度探讨了感知，解释了进化压力如何塑造了人类和其他动物的感知系统。他指出，知觉不一定是一个独立的过程，而是“知觉系统”的一部分，包括知觉信息的提取和行动的控制。罗杰斯接着介绍了最近通过使用精确和可控的心理物理方法、单细胞记录和成像技术在理解感知方面取得的重大进展，在人工系统中建立感知过程模型的尝试也有许多深刻的见解。正如罗杰斯所指出的，这些尝试揭示出，即使是我们认为理所当然的最简单的感知任务，要通过编程让机器去执行也是十分困难的。

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Perception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics in the field of psychology, and it also raises some profound philosophical questions. It is concerned with how we use the information reaching our senses to guide and control our behavior as well as to create our particular, subjective experiences of the surrounding world.

In this Very Short Introduction, Brian J. Rogers discusses the philosophical question of what it means to perceive, as well as describing how we are able to perceive the particular characteristics of objects and scenes such as their lightness, color, form, depth, and motion. What we perceive, however, does not always correspond to what exists in the world and, as Rogers shows, the study of illusions can be useful in telling us something about the nature and limitations of our perceptual processes. Rogers also explores perception from an evolutionary perspective, explaining how evolutionary pressures have shaped the perceptual systems of humans and other animals. He shows that perception is not necessarily a separate and independent process but rather part of a "perceptual system," involving both the extraction of perceptual information and the control of action. Rogers goes on to cover the significant progress made recently in the understanding of perception through the use of precise and controlled psychophysical methods, single cell recordings, and imaging techniques. There have also been many insights from attempts to model perceptual processes in artificial systems. As Rogers shows, these attempts have revealed how difficult it is to program machines to perform even the most simple of perceptual tasks that we take for granted.

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书籍目录

1: What is perception? 

2: Perceptual theories - indirect, direct and computational. 

3: Lightness and colour 

4: Motion perception 

5: Perception of a 3-D world 

6: Perception and action 

7: Delusions about illusions 

8: The physiology and anatomy of the perceptual system 

9: The future Glossary Further Reading 

Index

作者简介

布赖恩·罗杰斯是牛津大学实验心理学名誉教授。他与伊恩·霍华德合著了三卷本《深度感知》。他还是《感知》杂志的咨询编辑和社论编辑。

Brian Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University. He is the co-author of a three-volume set, Perceiving in Depth, with Ian Howard, published by Oxford University Press. He is the Consulting Editor and Editorials Editor for the journal Perception.