Cognition and reality : principles and implications of cognitive psychology /
Neisser, Ulric.
San Francisco : W.H. Freeman,
c1976.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-218).
Includes indexes.
1. Introduction -- 2. Theories of perception : Visual perception as information processing ; The information in the light -- The perceptual cycle ; Haptic perception ; Listening ; Combining information in several modalities -- 3. Ordinary seeing : Moving objects ; Arriving objects ; Stationary objects ; Expectancy effects ; Iconic storage -- 4. Schemata : A definition ; Some analogies ; Frames ; Information pickup and information storage ; Origins of the perceptual cycle ; Meaning and categorization -- 5. Attention and the problem of capacity : Selective listening and theories of attention ; Selective looking ; Dual attention as an acquired skill ; Automatic pickup? ; The limits of capacity ; Consciousness
6. Cognitive maps : Cognitive maps as schemata ; Movement-produced information ; Varieties of cognitive maps ; The image of the city -- 7. Imagining and remembering : Images as perceptual anticipations ; The method of Loci ; Association, imagery, and memory ; Touch and taste ; Manipulating the image -- 8. Perceiving and using speech : Speech as an event ; Visual information for a speech ; Concrete reference: a speculation ; The origins of introspection -- 9. Some consequences of cognition : Choosing where to look and what to do ; The limitations of prediction and control ; Social prediction ; Emotion and physiognomic perception ; Identity and communication.
Cognition.