Symmetry, causality, mind /
Leyton, Michael.
Symmetry, causality, mind / Michael Leyton. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1992. - 1 online resource (630 pages) : illustrations. - Bradford Books Ser. . - Bradford Books Ser. .
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-620) and index.
Recovering process-history -- Traces -- Radical computational vision -- Representation is explanation -- Groups and symmetry -- Domain-independent rules -- Linguistics -- Art -- Political prisoners. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Michael Leyton's arguments about the nature of perception and cognition are fascinating, exciting, and sure to be controversial. In this investigation of the psychological relationship between shape and time, Leyton argues compellingly that shape is used by the mind to recover the past and as such it forms a basis for memory. He elaborates a system of rules by which the conversion to memory takes place and presents a number of detailed case studies - in perception, linguistics, art, and even political subjugation - that support these rules. Leyton observes that the mind assigns to any shape a causal history explaining how the shape was formed. We cannot help but perceive a deformed can as a dented can. Moreover, by reducing the study of shape to the study of symmetry, he shows that symmetry is crucial to our everyday cognitive processing. Symmetry is the means by which shape is converted into memory. Perception is usually regarded as the recovery of the spatial layout of the environment. Leyton, however, shows that perception is fundamentally the extraction of time from shape. In doing so, he is able to reduce the several areas of computational vision purely to symmetry principles. Examining grammar in linguistics, he argues that a sentence is psychologically represented as a piece of causal history, an archeological relic disinterred by the listener so that the sentence reveals the past. Again through a detailed analysis of art he shows that what the viewer takes to be the experience of a painting is in fact the extraction of time from the shapes of the painting. Finally he highlights crucial aspects of the mind's attempt to recover time in examples of political subjugation. Michael Leyton is a professor in the Psychology Department at Rutgers University. He is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigatory Award for outstanding work in cognitive science.
English.
0585086303 (electronic bk.) 9780585086309 (electronic bk.) 9780262621311 0262621312 (Trade Paper) 0262278316 9780262278317
00015994
91024605
Time perception.
Symmetry--Psychological aspects.
Causation.
Form perception.
Cognition.
Memory.
Perception.
Human information processing.
Learning.
Space perception.
Visual perception.
Public health.
Medical care.
Causality
Form Perception
Time Perception
Cognition
Memory
Perception
Epidemiologic Factors
Mental Processes
Learning
Space Perception
Quality of Health Care
Visual Perception
Public Health
Psychological Phenomena and Processes.
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
Psychiatry and Psychology.
Environment and Public Health.
Delivery of Health Care
Perception du temps.
Symétrie--Aspect psychologique.
Causalité.
Perception des formes.
Cognition.
Mémoire.
Perception.
Traitement de l'information chez l'homme.
Apprentissage.
Perception spatiale.
Perception visuelle.
Santé publique.
Prestation de soins.
cognition.
space perception.
visual perception.
public health.
SCIENCE--Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY--Cognitive Psychology.
Causation.
Symmetry--Psychological aspects.
Time perception.
Waarneming.
Geest.
Herinnering.
Psychology.
Social Sciences.
Time Perception
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BF468 / .L487 1992eb
153.7/53
Symmetry, causality, mind / Michael Leyton. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1992. - 1 online resource (630 pages) : illustrations. - Bradford Books Ser. . - Bradford Books Ser. .
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-620) and index.
Recovering process-history -- Traces -- Radical computational vision -- Representation is explanation -- Groups and symmetry -- Domain-independent rules -- Linguistics -- Art -- Political prisoners. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Michael Leyton's arguments about the nature of perception and cognition are fascinating, exciting, and sure to be controversial. In this investigation of the psychological relationship between shape and time, Leyton argues compellingly that shape is used by the mind to recover the past and as such it forms a basis for memory. He elaborates a system of rules by which the conversion to memory takes place and presents a number of detailed case studies - in perception, linguistics, art, and even political subjugation - that support these rules. Leyton observes that the mind assigns to any shape a causal history explaining how the shape was formed. We cannot help but perceive a deformed can as a dented can. Moreover, by reducing the study of shape to the study of symmetry, he shows that symmetry is crucial to our everyday cognitive processing. Symmetry is the means by which shape is converted into memory. Perception is usually regarded as the recovery of the spatial layout of the environment. Leyton, however, shows that perception is fundamentally the extraction of time from shape. In doing so, he is able to reduce the several areas of computational vision purely to symmetry principles. Examining grammar in linguistics, he argues that a sentence is psychologically represented as a piece of causal history, an archeological relic disinterred by the listener so that the sentence reveals the past. Again through a detailed analysis of art he shows that what the viewer takes to be the experience of a painting is in fact the extraction of time from the shapes of the painting. Finally he highlights crucial aspects of the mind's attempt to recover time in examples of political subjugation. Michael Leyton is a professor in the Psychology Department at Rutgers University. He is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigatory Award for outstanding work in cognitive science.
English.
0585086303 (electronic bk.) 9780585086309 (electronic bk.) 9780262621311 0262621312 (Trade Paper) 0262278316 9780262278317
00015994
91024605
Time perception.
Symmetry--Psychological aspects.
Causation.
Form perception.
Cognition.
Memory.
Perception.
Human information processing.
Learning.
Space perception.
Visual perception.
Public health.
Medical care.
Causality
Form Perception
Time Perception
Cognition
Memory
Perception
Epidemiologic Factors
Mental Processes
Learning
Space Perception
Quality of Health Care
Visual Perception
Public Health
Psychological Phenomena and Processes.
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
Psychiatry and Psychology.
Environment and Public Health.
Delivery of Health Care
Perception du temps.
Symétrie--Aspect psychologique.
Causalité.
Perception des formes.
Cognition.
Mémoire.
Perception.
Traitement de l'information chez l'homme.
Apprentissage.
Perception spatiale.
Perception visuelle.
Santé publique.
Prestation de soins.
cognition.
space perception.
visual perception.
public health.
SCIENCE--Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY--Cognitive Psychology.
Causation.
Symmetry--Psychological aspects.
Time perception.
Waarneming.
Geest.
Herinnering.
Psychology.
Social Sciences.
Time Perception
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
BF468 / .L487 1992eb
153.7/53