Ambiguity in Mind and Nature
Subtitle: Multistable Cognitive Phenomena
By: edited by Peter Kruse, Michael Stadler
Contributors: Stadler, Michael
Series: Springer Series in Synergetics -- 64; Springer Series in Synergetics -- 64
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9783642784132; 9783642784118
Subjects: Physics; Artificial intelligence
Description: Ambiguity in Mind and Nature is the result of cognitive multistability, the phenomenon in which an unchanging stimulus, usually visual, gives rise in the subject to an oscillating perceptual interpretation. The vase/face picture is one of the most famous examples. In this book scientists from many disciplines including physics, biology, psychology, maths and computer science, present recent progress in this fascinating area of cognitive science. Using the phenomenon of multistability as a paradigm they seek to understand how meaning originates in the brain as a consequence of cognitive processes. New advances are achieved by applying concepts such as self-organization, chaos theory and complex systems to the latest results of psychological and neurophysical experiments.
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