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Image And Mind
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Author : Stephen Michael Kosslyn
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1980
Image And Mind written by Stephen Michael Kosslyn and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Kosslyn makes an impressive case for the view that images are critically involved in the life of the mind. In a series of ingenious experiments, he provides hard evidence that people can construct elaborate mental images, search them for specific information, and perform such other internal operations as mental rotation.
Image And Mind
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Author : Gregory Currie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-09-29
Image And Mind written by Gregory Currie and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-29 with Performing Arts categories.
This book develops a theory of the nature of the cinematic medium, of the psychology of film viewing, and of film narrative.
Image And Brain
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Author : Stephen Michael Kosslyn
language : en
Publisher: Mit Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Image And Brain written by Stephen Michael Kosslyn and has been published by Mit Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Psychology categories.
"Image and Brain attempts what is rarely seen in cognitive neuroscience: The Big Picture. To be sure, it is Kosslyn's Big Picture, but that is probably the best there is." -- Irving Biederman, William M. Keck Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Southern California. This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image and Brain marshals insights and empirical results from computer vision, neuroscience, and cognitive science to develop a general theory of visual mental imagery, its relation to visual perception, and its implementation in the human brain. It offers a definitive resolution to the long-standing debate about the nature of the internal representation of visual mental imagery. Kosslyn reviews evidence that perception and representation are inextricably linked, and goes on to show how "quasi-pictorial" events in the brain are generated, interpreted, and used in cognition. The theory is tested with brain- scanning techniques that provide stronger evidence than has been possible in the past. Known for his work in high-level vision, one of the most empirically successful areas of experimental psychology, Kosslyn uses a highly interdisciplinary approach. He reviews and integrates an extensive amount of literature in a coherent presentation, and reports a wide range of new findings using a host of techniques. A Bradford Book
Image And Brain
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Author : Stephen M. Kosslyn
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1996-08-26
Image And Brain written by Stephen M. Kosslyn and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-26 with Psychology categories.
This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image and Brain marshals insights and empirical results from computer vision, neuroscience, and cognitive science to develop a general theory of visual mental imagery, its relation to visual perception, and its implementation in the human brain. It offers a definitive resolution to the long-standing debate about the nature of the internal representation of visual mental imagery. Kosslyn reviews evidence that perception and representation are inextricably linked, and goes on to show how "quasi-pictorial" events in the brain are generated, interpreted, and used in cognition. The theory is tested with brain-scanning techniques that provide stronger evidence than has been possible in the past. Known for his work in high-level vision, one of the most empirically successful areas of experimental psychology, Kosslyn uses a highly interdisciplinary approach. He reviews and integrates an extensive amount of literature in a coherent presentation, and reports a wide range of new findings using a host of techniques. A Bradford Book
Mind Image
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Author : Herb Greene
language : en
Publisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 1976
Mind Image written by Herb Greene and has been published by Lexington : University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Architecture categories.
"It is rare to find in recent structures architectural allusions that remind us of valued human experiences and teach us to prize what we may have taken for granted. Symmetry and mechanical efficiency we may find, and surface application of set architectural styles, but these make no fundamental appeal to most of us. Our more deeply rooted responses to such architectural elements as texture, contour, and scale should, Herb Greene writes in this book, be more carefully studied by architects. Greene has long been recognized as a designer of houses that excite the imagination. Now he presents a beautifully illustrated commentary on his principles and methods. Ranging from discussions of the lingering influences of Cartesian mechanism to explanations for the uninhabitability of large public housing projects, this commentary approaches the topic of organic architecture from a point of view that is philosophic as well as practical, artistic as well as historical. To explain the mysterious power of certain architectural images, Greene offers a matrix theory, relying on the teachings of Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty about the nature of perception. He shows how he applies this theory in fascinating accounts of the design processes followed in an assortment of his one-of-a-kind houses built for specific clients. The mass market also wins attention in this book, Greene presents fresh approaches to functional and aesthetic problems in subdivision housing, high-rise development, and the highway commercial strip. In the housing models the tenant is offered active encouragement to make his home uniquely expressive of his own interests and taste. All the developments offer suggestions for a positive relation to region and place. Plans and photographs of many of Greene's buildings are included, and details from several of his collage paintings are reproduced. In addition a varied selection of illustrations - including examples of advertising art, Frank Lloyd Wright house plans, and pre-Columbian Indian sculpture - accompanies his explanation of the perceptual process and its effect on our response to images." --
The Black Image In The White Mind
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Author : Robert M. Entman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-02-15
The Black Image In The White Mind written by Robert M. Entman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-15 with Social Science categories.
Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans not through personal relationships but through the images the media show them. The Black Image in the White Mind offers the most comprehensive look at the intricate racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the ambivalent attitudes of Whites toward Blacks. Using the media, and especially television, as barometers of race relations, Robert Entman and Andrew Rojecki explore but then go beyond the treatment of African Americans on network and local news to incisively uncover the messages sent about race by the entertainment industry-from prime-time dramas and sitcoms to commercials and Hollywood movies. While the authors find very little in the media that intentionally promotes racism, they find even less that advances racial harmony. They reveal instead a subtle pattern of images that, while making room for Blacks, implies a racial hierarchy with Whites on top and promotes a sense of difference and conflict. Commercials, for example, feature plenty of Black characters. But unlike Whites, they rarely speak to or touch one another. In prime time, the few Blacks who escape sitcom buffoonery rarely enjoy informal, friendly contact with White colleagues—perhaps reinforcing social distance in real life. Entman and Rojecki interweave such astute observations with candid interviews of White Americans that make clear how these images of racial difference insinuate themselves into Whites' thinking. Despite its disturbing readings of television and film, the book's cogent analyses and proposed policy guidelines offer hope that America's powerful mediated racial separation can be successfully bridged. "Entman and Rojecki look at how television news focuses on black poverty and crime out of proportion to the material reality of black lives, how black 'experts' are only interviewed for 'black-themed' issues and how 'black politics' are distorted in the news, and conclude that, while there are more images of African-Americans on television now than there were years ago, these images often don't reflect a commitment to 'racial comity' or community-building between the races. Thoroughly researched and convincingly argued."—Publishers Weekly "Drawing on their own research and that of a wide array of other scholars, Entman and Rojecki present a great deal of provocative data showing a general tendency to devalue blacks or force them into stock categories."—Ben Yagoda, New Leader Winner of the Frank Luther Mott Award for best book in Mass Communication and the Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political psychology.
The Image In Mind
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Author : Charles Taliaferro
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-01-01
The Image In Mind written by Charles Taliaferro and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Religion categories.
A philosophical inquiry into the strengths and weaknesses of theism and naturalism in accounting for the emergence of consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. The authors begin by offering an account of modern scientific practice which gives a central place to the visual imagination and aesthetic values. They then move to test the explanatory power of naturalism and theism in accounting for consciousness and the very visual imagination and aesthetic values that lie behind and define modern science. Taliaferro and Evans argue that evolutionary biology alone is insufficient to account for consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. Insofar as naturalism is compelled to go beyond evolutionary biology, it does not fare as well as theism in terms of explanatory power.
Mind And Image
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Author : Herb Greene
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Mind And Image written by Herb Greene and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
The Image In Mind
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Author : Charles Taliaferro
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-06-06
The Image In Mind written by Charles Taliaferro and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Religion categories.
A philosophical inquiry into the strengths and weaknesses of theism and naturalism in accounting for the emergence of consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. The authors begin by offering an account of modern scientific practice which gives a central place to the visual imagination and aesthetic values. They then move to test the explanatory power of naturalism and theism in accounting for consciousness and the very visual imagination and aesthetic values that lie behind and define modern science. Taliaferro and Evans argue that evolutionary biology alone is insufficient to account for consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. Insofar as naturalism is compelled to go beyond evolutionary biology, it does not fare as well as theism in terms of explanatory power.
Portraits Of The Mind
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Author : Carl Schoonover
language : en
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Portraits Of The Mind written by Carl Schoonover and has been published by Harry N. Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Medical categories.
Portraits of the Mind follows the fascinating history of our exploration of the brain through images, from medieval sketches and 19th-century drawings by the founder of modern neuroscience to images produced using state-of-the-art techniques, allowing us to see the fantastic networks in the brain as never before. These black-and-white and vibrantly colored images, many resembling abstract art, are employed daily by scientists around the world, but most have never before been seen by the general public. Each chapter addresses a different set of techniques for studying the brain as revealed through the images, and each is introduced by a leading scientist in that field of study. Author Carl Schoonover's captions provide detailed explanations of each image as well as the major insights gained by scientists over the course of the past 20 years. Accessible to a wide audience, this book reveals the elegant methods applied to study the mind, giving readers a peek at its innermost workings, helping us to understand them, and offering clues about what may lie ahead. Praise for Portraits of the Mind: "An odyssey through the brain, illuminated by a rainbow" --New York Times "Stunning images" --Scientific American "The collection of images in the new book Portraits of the Mind is truly impressive . . . The mix of history, science and art is terrific." -Wired.com "History, science, and art come together to provide a unique perspective on what's going on upstairs." --New Yorker.com "No knowledge of the source or subject matter of these images is necessary; the book is justified by their beauty alone." --Science "A remarkable new book" - -Discover.com "John Keats's insistence that truth is beauty is exemplified by Carl Schoonover's wonderful book Portraits of the Mind. Since one cannot understand the present without examining the past, this book offers a delightful and instructive way of accomplishing just that. I enthusiastically recommend this beautiful book both to students of brain science and to lovers of art." -Eric R. Kandel, MD, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2000; University Professor at Columbia; Fred Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science; Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and author of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind "Portraits of the Mind achieves a rare combination of beauty and knowledge. Its images of the brain are mesmerizing, from medieval engravings to modern visualizations as gorgeously abstract as anything by Rothko or de Kooning. And in explaining the nature of these images, this book also delivers an enlightening, up-to-date history of neuroscience." -Carl Zimmer, author of Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain-and How It Changed the World and The Mind's Eye Goes Blind: Fifteen Journeys Through the Brain "Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries, as well as lively and authoritative commentaries by some of today's leading neuroscientists. It will be enjoyed by professionals and general readers alike." --Dale Purves, MD, Professor of Neurobiology, Psychology and Neuroscience; and Philosophy at Duke University