Main description:
This volume starts from an interdisciplinary expertise of the contributors, and chooses to work on the very origins of conscious qualitative states in perception. The leading research paradigm can be synthesized in 'phenomenology to neurons to stimuli, and backwards', since as a starting point it is taken the phenomenal appearances in the visual field. Specifically, the leading theme of the volume is the co-presence and interaction of diverse types of spaces in vision, like the optical space of psychophysics and of neural elaboration, the qualitative space of phenomenal appearances, and its relation with the pictorial space of art. The contributors to the volume agree in arguing that those spaces follow different rules of organization, whose specific singularity and reciprocal dependence have to be individuated, as a preliminary step to understand the architecture of the conscious awareness of our environment and to conceive its potential implementation in constructing any kind of embodied intentional agents. (Series B)
Table of contents:
- Affiliations, addresses
- Foreword
- Perception of visual spaces
- Introduction to visual spaces
- Coplanar reflectance change and the ontology of surface perception
- Evidence suggestive of separate visual dynamics in perception and in memory
- Illusory space and paradoxical transparency in stereokinetic objects
- The neural space of visual shape perception
- Boundary Gestalt limits flow Gestalt
- Depiction of visual spaces
- Pictorial space, a modern reappraisal of Adolf Hildebrand
- Gestalts of thought
- Visual quality
- Rudolf Arnheim's graphic equivalents in children's drawings and drawings and paintings by Paul Klee
- Visual perception and theories of painting
- Bridging perception and depiction of visual spaces
- Dynamics of picture viewing and picture description
- Order and complexity in naturalistic landscapes
- Thoughts on shape
- Tracing axes of growth
- John Willats†
- Name index
- Subject index
This volume starts from an interdisciplinary expertise of the contributors, and chooses to work on the very origins of conscious qualitative states in perception. The leading research paradigm can be synthesized in 'phenomenology to neurons to stimuli, and backwards', since as a starting point it is taken the phenomenal appearances in the visual field. Specifically, the leading theme of the volume is the co-presence and interaction of diverse types of spaces in vision, like the optical space of psychophysics and of neural elaboration, the qualitative space of phenomenal appearances, and its relation with the pictorial space of art. The contributors to the volume agree in arguing that those spaces follow different rules of organization, whose specific singularity and reciprocal dependence have to be individuated, as a preliminary step to understand the architecture of the conscious awareness of our environment and to conceive its potential implementation in constructing any kind of embodied intentional agents. (Series B)
Table of contents:
- Affiliations, addresses
- Foreword
- Perception of visual spaces
- Introduction to visual spaces
- Coplanar reflectance change and the ontology of surface perception
- Evidence suggestive of separate visual dynamics in perception and in memory
- Illusory space and paradoxical transparency in stereokinetic objects
- The neural space of visual shape perception
- Boundary Gestalt limits flow Gestalt
- Depiction of visual spaces
- Pictorial space, a modern reappraisal of Adolf Hildebrand
- Gestalts of thought
- Visual quality
- Rudolf Arnheim's graphic equivalents in children's drawings and drawings and paintings by Paul Klee
- Visual perception and theories of painting
- Bridging perception and depiction of visual spaces
- Dynamics of picture viewing and picture description
- Order and complexity in naturalistic landscapes
- Thoughts on shape
- Tracing axes of growth
- John Willats†
- Name index
- Subject index