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Lauwereyns, Jan

 
9780262017916: Brain and the Gaze: On the Active Boundaries of Vision
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ISBN 10 : 0262017911 ISBN 13 : 9780262017916
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2012

Synopsis

A radically integrative account of visual perception, grounded in neuroscience but drawing on insights from philosophy and psychology.

How do we gain access to things as they are? Although we routinely take our self-made pictures to be veridical representations of reality, in actuality we choose (albeit unwittingly) or construct what we see. By movements of the eyes, the direction of our gaze, we create meaning. In Brain and the Gaze, Jan Lauwereyns offers a novel reformulation of perception and its neural underpinnings, focusing on the active nature of perception.

In his investigation of active perception and its brain mechanisms, Lauwereyns offers the gaze as the principal paradigm for perception. In a radically integrative account, grounded in neuroscience but drawing on insights from philosophy and psychology, he discusses the dynamic and constrained nature of perception; the complex information processing at the level of the retina; the active nature of vision; the intensive nature of representations; the gaze of others as visual stimulus; and the intentionality of vision and consciousness. An engaging point of entry to the cognitive neuroscience of perception, written for neuroscientists but illuminated by insights from thinkers ranging from William James to Slavoj Žižek, Brain and the Gaze will give new impetus to research and theory in the field.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jan Lauwereyns is Professor in the Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences at Kyushu University in Japan and Adjunct Research Associate in the School of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. A scientist, poet, and essayist, he is the author of The Anatomy of Bias: How Neural Circuits Weigh the Options (MIT Press, 2010) and other books.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262017911
ISBN 13 
9780262017916
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
312
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