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The Interaction of Perception and Action

PERCEPTION STARTS AT THE RECEPTORS: BOTTOM-UP PROCESSING

Bottom-Up Processing: Physiological Bottom-Up Processing: Behavioral

BEYOND BOTTOM-UP PROCESSING Perception Depends on Additional Information Perceiving Size: Taking Distance Into Account DEMONSTRATION: Two Quarters

Perceiving Odor Intensity: Taking Sniffing Into Account

TEST YOURSELF 3.1

USING KNOWLEDGE: TOP-DOWN PROCESSING

Helmholtz’s Theory of Unconscious Inference

The Gestalt Laws of Organization

DEMONSTRATION: Finding Faces in a Landscape

The Gestalt “Laws” Are “Heuristics”

Taking Regularities in the Environment Into Account

DEMONSTRATION: Shape From Shading

DEMONSTRATION: Visualizing Scenes and Objects

TEST YOURSELF 3.2

NEURONS AND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT

Designing a Perceiving Machine

The Human “Perceiving Machine”

Experience-Dependent Plasticity

AND TAKING ACTION REACHING FOR A CUP: THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PERCEIVING

TAKING ACTION

Movement Facilitates Perception

The Interaction of Perception and Action The Physiology of Perception and Action

METHOD: Brain Ablation

METHOD: Dissociations in Neuropsychology Contents • xi

Picking Up a Coffee Cup and Other Behaviors

SOMETHING TO CONSIDER: MIRROR NEURONS

TEST YOURSELF 3.3

CHAPTER

THINK ABOUT IT

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE

KEY TERMS

MEDIA RESOURCES