Cognition, Information Processing, and Psychophysics

Basic Issues
Herausgeber: Geissler, Hans-Georg; Townsend, James T.; Link, Stephen W.

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Produktbeschreibung

The plan for this volume emerged during the international Leipzig conference commemorating the centenary of the death of Gustav Fechner. The contributors suggested that while many features of modern psychological theory were anticipated by Fechner, many new theoretical approaches owe much more to him than often is realized. As such, they decided to honor Fechner by evaluating his own contribution to the founding of psychology and psychoanalysis, by deepening the foundations of psychological theories of consciousness, perception, and choice, and by using the analysis of time to create a new appreciation of constraints that bind mental processes together. Thus, this volume spans an extraordinary range of psychological topics, from hermeneutics to the time-quantum basis for mental processes, in a way that would both amaze and delight Fechner. Moreover, the international reach of his pioneering ideas can be seen from the current locations of the contributors. The span from Japan to the United States to Holland to Germany and to Israel provides a global measure of Fechner's scientific legacy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Psychology Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9780805809954
• ISBN-10: 0805809953
• Artikelnr.: 28119758

Autorenporträt

James T. Townsend, Hans-Georg Geissler, Stephen W. Link

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Part I: Foundations and Epistemology. E. Scheerer
Fechner's Inner Psychophysics: Its Historical Fate and Present Status. L.E. Marks
Freud and Fechner
Desire and Energy
Hermeneutics and Psychophysics. G. Mandler
Toward a Theory of Consciousness. A. Ben-Ze'ev
Cognitive Development: Two Paradigms. C. van Leeuwen
Drawing Inferences from Representation Structure: In Defense of a Formal Theory of Representations. J.T. Townsend
On the Proper Scales for Reaction Time. Part II: Experimental Themes: Perspectives and Critical Analyses. W.K. Estes
Mental Psychophysics of Categorization and Decision. S.E. Palmer
Reference Frames in the Perception of Spatial Structure. P. Petzold
Context Effects in Judgments of Attributes: An Information-Integration Approach. A. Parducci
Elaborations Upon Psychophysical Contexts for Judgment: Implications of Cognitive Models. S. Imai
Fundamentals of Cognitive Judgments of Pattern. D. Algom
Psychophysical Analysis of Pain: A Functional Perspective. H-G. Geissler
New Magical Numbers in Mental Activity: On a Taxonomic System for Critical Time Periods.