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80 Comparative Psychology sophisticated but has begun to creep back into the field as some believe that the most remarkable feat ...

References 81 states of consciousness. At a personal level, I fully believe that those animals have a consciousness that is simi ...

82 Comparative Psychology The latest on the best: Essays on evolution and optimality (pp. 277–306). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Da ...

References 83 LeBoeuf, B. J. (1974). Male-male competition and reproductive success in elephant seals. American Zoologist, 14,16 ...

84 Comparative Psychology Thorndike, E. L. (1911). Animal intelligence: Experimental studies. New York: Macmillan. Thorpe, W. H. ...

CHAPTER 5 Sensation and Perception STANLEY COREN 85 THE PERCEPTUAL PROBLEM 86 SENSATION, PERCEPTION, REASON, AND COGNITION 87 PH ...

86 Sensation and Perception modality-specific issue might be the chain of events that leads from the absorption of a photon to a ...

Sensation, Perception, Reason, and Cognition 87 recognized can the perceptual problembe defined. At the first level, the percept ...

88 Sensation and Perception knowledge of the senses and perceptual processes. The mind is simply a tabula rasa,a blank tablet or ...

Sensation, Perception, Reason, and Cognition 89 which are the basic elements we need to construct our con- scious image of the e ...

90 Sensation and Perception program; hence, the name computational theoriesis often used. These are computations associated with ...

Physics and Visual Perception 91 any information pertaining to vision must enter the eye. Yet this leads us to an immediate para ...

92 Sensation and Perception Figure 5.1 A figure after the style of Euclid, but still in use today, where the drawn lines describ ...

Physiology and Perception 93 suggested that there must be a second inversion of the image in the eye, perhaps because the fundus ...

94 Sensation and Perception then goes on to make it quite explicit that to understand men- tal phenomena we must understand “the ...

Physiology and Perception 95 Imagine that the Sensorium is a prisoner in the skull and wants to know about the Eiffel Tower. The ...

96 Sensation and Perception The groundwork for saving the specific nerve energy the- ory had already been laid before the theory ...

Physiology and Perception 97 Hering also noted that observers never report certain color combinations, such as yellowish blue or ...

98 Sensation and Perception advantage of having large individual cells that receive light (photoreceptor cells) and long, well-d ...

The Science of Illusion 99 Figure 5.2 Instances of noncorrespondence and illusion: (A) the upper di- vided space appears to be s ...