Understanding events
Subtitle: from perception to action
By: edited by Thomas F. Shipley and Jeffrey M. Zacks.
Contributors: Shipley, Thomas F.; Zacks, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195188370
Subjects: Perception; Attention; Memory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foundations; title: An invitation to an event / Thomas F. Shipley; title: Event concepts / Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi; title: Events are what we make of them / Robert Schwartz; title: Developing an understanding of events; title: Perceptual development in infancy as the foundation of event perception / Scott P. Johnson , Dima Amso, Michael Frank, and Sarah Shuwairi; title: Pragmatics of human action / Dare Baldwin, Jeffery Loucks, and Mark Sabbagh; title: Event memory in infancy and early childhood / Patricia J. Bauer; title: Current events: how infants parse the world and events for language / Shannon M. Pruden, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta M. Golinkoff; title: Speaking of events : event word learning and event representation / Mandy J. Maguire and Guy O. Dove; title: Perceiving and segmenting events : perceiving action events; title: Representations of voluntary arm movements in the motor cortex and their transformations / Apostolos P. Georgopoulos and Elissaios Karageorgiou; title: Events and actions as dynamically molded spatial-temporal objects : critique of the motor theory of biological motion perception / Geoffrey P. Bingham and Emily A. Wickelgren; title: Movement style, movement features and the recognition of affect from human movement / Frank E. Pollick and Helena Paterson; title: Retrieving information from human movement patterns / Nikolaus F. Troje; title: Neurophysiology of action recognition / Emily D. Grossman; title: Animacy and intention in the brain : neuroscience of social event perception / Andrea S. Heberlein; title: Segmenting events; title: The role of segmentation for perception and understanding of events / Stephan Schwan and Bärbel Garsoffky; title: Geometric information for event segmentation / Thomas F. Shipley and Mandy J. Maguire; title: The structure of experience / Barbara Tversky, Jeffrey M. Zacks, and Bridgette Martin Hard; title: Representing and remembering events; title: Representing events; title: Computational vision approaches for event modeling / Rama Chellappa, Naresh P. Cuntoor, Seong-Wook Joo, V.S. Subrahmanian, and Pavan Turaga; title: Shining spotlights, zooming lenses, grabbing hands, and pecking chickens : the ebb and flow of attention during events / Daniel T. Levin and Megan M. Saylor; title: Dynamics and the perception of causal events / Phillip Wolff; title: Remembering events; title: The boundaries of episodic memories / Helen L. Williams, Martin A. Conway, and Alan D. Baddeley; title: The human prefrontal cortex stores structured event complexes / Frank Krueger and Jordan Grafman; title: Neurocognitive mechanisms of human comprehension / Tatiana Sitnikova, Phillip J. Holcomb, and Gina R. Kuperberg.