Understanding Events - From Perception to Action

Klappentext This book is the first to bring together computational, neurological, and psychological research on how humans detect, classify, remember, and act on events. It provides a comprehensive collection of the latest research in these diverse fields. Zusammenfassung We effortlessly remember all sorts of events - from simple events like people walking to complex events like leaves blowing in the wind. We can also remember and describe these events, and in general, react appropriately to them, for example, in avoiding an approaching object. Our phenomenal ease interacting with events belies the complexity of the underlying processes we use to deal with them. Driven by an interest in these complex processes, research on even perception has been growing rapidly. Events are the basis of all experience, so understanding how humans perceive, represent, and act on them will have a significant impact on many areas of psychology. Unfortunately, much of the research on event perception - in visual perception, motor control, linguistics, and computer science - has progressed without much interaction. This book is the first to bring together computational, neurological, and psychological research on how humans detect, classify, remember, and act on events. It provides professional and student researchers with a comprehensive collection of the latest reserach in these diverse fields.

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• Authors: Thomas F. Shipley, Thomas F. (Associate Professor Shipley, Thomas F. (EDT)/ Zacks Shipley, Thomas F. Zacks Shipley
• Assisted by: Thomas F. Shipley (Editor), Thomas F. (Associate Professor Shipley (Editor), Shipley Thomas F. (Editor), Jeffrey M. Zacks (Editor), Jeffrey M. (Associate Professor Zacks (Editor), Zacks Jeffrey M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2008
• EAN: 9780195188370
• ISBN: 978-0-19-518837-0
• No. of pages: 736
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 44 mm
• Series: Oxford Series in Visual Cognit; Advances in Visual Cognition; Oxford Series in Visual Cognit
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Perception, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Experimental Psychology, Child & developmental psychology, Neurosciences, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology