TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leyton,Michael
TI  - Symmetry, causality, mind
T2  - Bradford Books Ser
SN  - 0585086303
AV  - BF468 .L487 1992eb
U1  - 153.7/53 20
PY  - 1992///
KW  - Time perception
KW  - Symmetry
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Causation
KW  - Form perception
KW  - Cognition
KW  - Memory
KW  - Perception
KW  - Human information processing
KW  - Learning
KW  - Space perception
KW  - Visual perception
KW  - Public health
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Causality
KW  - Form Perception
KW  - Time Perception
KW  - Epidemiologic Factors
KW  - Mental Processes
KW  - Space Perception
KW  - Quality of Health Care
KW  - Visual Perception
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Psychological Phenomena and Processes
KW  - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
KW  - Psychiatry and Psychology
KW  - Environment and Public Health
KW  - Delivery of Health Care
KW  - Perception du temps
KW  - Symétrie
KW  - Aspect psychologique
KW  - Causalité
KW  - Perception des formes
KW  - Mémoire
KW  - Traitement de l'information chez l'homme
KW  - Apprentissage
KW  - Perception spatiale
KW  - Perception visuelle
KW  - Santé publique
KW  - Prestation de soins
KW  - cognition
KW  - aat
KW  - space perception
KW  - visual perception
KW  - public health
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Cognitive Science
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - Cognitive Psychology
KW  - fast
KW  - Waarneming
KW  - gtt
KW  - Geest
KW  - Herinnering
KW  - Psychology
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Time
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "A Bradford book."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-620) and index; 1; Recovering process-history --; 2; Traces --; 3; Radical computational vision --; 4; Representation is explanation --; 5; Groups and symmetry --; 6; Domain-independent rules --; 7; Linguistics --; 8; Art --; 9; Political prisoners
N2  - 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
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