Seeing, thinking and knowing : meaning and self-organization in visual cognition and thought /

The world perceived at the visual level is constituted not by objects or static forms, but by processes appearing imbued with meaning. As G. Kanizsa stated, at the visual level the line per se does not exist: only the line which enters, goes behind, divides, etc., a line evolving according to a prec...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Carsetti, Arturo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2004]
Series:Theory and decision library. Philosophy and methodology of the social sciences ; v. 38.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Neural models of seeing and thinking / S. Grossberg
  • Functional architecture of the visual cortex and variational models for Kanizsa's modal subjective contours / J. Petitot
  • Gestalt theory and computer vision / A. Desolneux, L. Moisan & J.M. Morel
  • Towards an analytic phenomenology : the concepts of "bodiliness" and "grabbiness" / J.K. O'Regan, E. Myin & A. NoĆ«
  • Internal representations of sensory input reflect the motor output with which organisms respond to the input / A. Di Ferdinando & D. Parisi
  • Movemes for modeling biological motion perception / L. Goncalves, E. Di Bernardo & P. Perona
  • Form constraints in motion integration, segmentation and selection / J. Lorenceau
  • Scintillations, extinctions and other new visual effects / J. Ninio
  • Commonalities between visual imagery and imagery in other modalities : an investigation by means of FMRI / M. Olivetti Belardinelli [and others]
  • Microgenesis, immediate experience and visual processes in reading / V. Rosenthal
  • Language, space and the theory of semantic forms / Y.M. Visetti
  • Emotion-cognition interaction and language / M. Wimmer
  • Appearance of structure and emergence of meaning in the visual system / M. Stadler & P. Kruse
  • The embodied meaning : self-organisation and symbolic dynamics in visual cognition / A. Carsetti.