Perception: A Very Short Introduction

基本信息

作者: Brian Rogers

Series: Very Short Introductions

Paperback: 184頁

出版社: Oxford University Press (2017年10月26日)

語種: 英語

ISBN: 9780198791003                                                   

產品尺寸及重量: 113 x 174 x 15 (mm) | 138g

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準 

書籍簡介

知覺是心理學領域最古老、研究最深入的課題之一，同時也提出了一些深刻的哲學問題。它涉及到我們如何利用到達感官的信息來引導和控制我們的行為，以及如何創造我們對周圍世界的特殊的、主觀的體驗。

在本書中，布賴恩·羅傑斯討論了感知意味着什麼的哲學問題，以及描述了我們如何能夠感知物體和場景的特殊特徵，如亮度、顏色、形式、深度和運動。然而，我們所感知的並不總是與世界上存在的事物相一致，正如羅傑斯所表明的，對幻覺的研究可以幫助我們瞭解我們知覺過程的性質和侷限性。羅傑斯還從進化的角度探討了感知，解釋了進化壓力如何塑造了人類和其他動物的感知系統。他指出，知覺不一定是一個獨立的過程，而是“知覺系統”的一部分，包括知覺信息的提取和行動的控制。羅傑斯接着介紹了最近通過使用精確和可控的心理物理方法、單細胞記錄和成像技術在理解感知方面取得的重大進展，在人工系統中建立感知過程模型的嘗試也有許多深刻的見解。正如羅傑斯所指出的，這些嘗試揭示出，即使是我們認為理所當然的最簡單的感知任務，要通過編程讓機器去執行也是十分困難的。

關於牛津通識系列：對各個學科領域進行了簡要的介紹。這些口袋般大小的書是快速學習新學科的*工具。專家作者結合事實，分析，觀點，新想法和熱情，使有趣和具有挑戰性的話題可讀性提高。

Perception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics in the field of psychology, and it also raises some profound philosophical questions. It is concerned with how we use the information reaching our senses to guide and control our behavior as well as to create our particular, subjective experiences of the surrounding world.

In this Very Short Introduction, Brian J. Rogers discusses the philosophical question of what it means to perceive, as well as describing how we are able to perceive the particular characteristics of objects and scenes such as their lightness, color, form, depth, and motion. What we perceive, however, does not always correspond to what exists in the world and, as Rogers shows, the study of illusions can be useful in telling us something about the nature and limitations of our perceptual processes. Rogers also explores perception from an evolutionary perspective, explaining how evolutionary pressures have shaped the perceptual systems of humans and other animals. He shows that perception is not necessarily a separate and independent process but rather part of a "perceptual system," involving both the extraction of perceptual information and the control of action. Rogers goes on to cover the significant progress made recently in the understanding of perception through the use of precise and controlled psychophysical methods, single cell recordings, and imaging techniques. There have also been many insights from attempts to model perceptual processes in artificial systems. As Rogers shows, these attempts have revealed how difficult it is to program machines to perform even the most simple of perceptual tasks that we take for granted.

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書籍目錄

1: What is perception? 

2: Perceptual theories - indirect, direct and computational. 

3: Lightness and colour 

4: Motion perception 

5: Perception of a 3-D world 

6: Perception and action 

7: Delusions about illusions 

8: The physiology and anatomy of the perceptual system 

9: The future Glossary Further Reading 

Index

作者簡介

布賴恩·羅傑斯是牛津大學實驗心理學名譽教授。他與伊恩·霍華德合著了三卷本《深度感知》。他還是《感知》雜誌的諮詢編輯和社論編輯。

Brian Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University. He is the co-author of a three-volume set, Perceiving in Depth, with Ian Howard, published by Oxford University Press. He is the Consulting Editor and Editorials Editor for the journal Perception.