Understanding Events: From Perception to Action (Advances in Visual Cognition, 4)

ISBN 10: 0195188373 / ISBN 13: 9780195188370

Editore: Oxford University Press, 2008

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Titolo: Understanding Events: From Perception to ...

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press

Data di pubblicazione: 2008

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We effortlessly remember all sorts of events - from simple events like people walking to complex events like leaves blowing in the wind. We can also remember and describe these events, and in general, react appropriately to them, for example, in avoiding an approaching object. Our phenomenal ease interacting with events belies the complexity of the underlying processes we use to deal with them. Driven by an interest in these complex processes, research on even perception has been growing rapidly. Events are the basis of all experience, so understanding how humans perceive, represent, and act on them will have a significant impact on many areas of psychology. Unfortunately, much of the research on event perception - in visual perception, motor control, linguistics, and computer science - has progressed without much interaction. This book is the first to bring together computational, neurological, and psychological research on how humans detect, classify, remember, and act on events. It provides professional and student researchers with a comprehensive collection of the latest reserach in these diverse fields.

Contenuti:

• Part I Foundations
• 1: Thomas F. Shipley: An Invitation to an Event
• 2: Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi: Event Concepts
• 3: Robert Schwartz: Events Are What We Make of Them
• Part II Developing an Understanding of Events
• Overview
• 4: Scott P. Johnson, Dima Amso, Michael Frank, and Sarah Shuwairi: Perceptual Development in Infancy as the Foundation of Event Perception
• 5: Dare Baldwin, Jeffrey Loucks, and Mark Sabbagh: Pragmatics of Human Action
• 6: Patricia J. Bauer: Event Memory in Infancy and Early Childhood
• 7: Shannon M. Pruden, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta M. Golinkoff: Current Events: How Infants Parse the World and Events for Language
• 8: Mandy J. Maguire and Guy O. Dove: Speaking of Events: Event Word Learning and Event Representation
• Part III Perceiving and Segmenting Events
• Overview
• Section 1: Perceiving Action Events
• 9: Apostolos P. Georgopoulos and Elissaios Karageorgiou: Representations of Voluntary Arm Movements in the Motor Cortex and Their Transformations
• 10: Geoffrey P. Bingham and Emily A. Wickelgren: Events and Actions as Dynamically Molded Spatiotemporal Objects: A Critique of the Motor Theory of Biological Motion Perception
• 11: Frank E. Pollick and Helena Paterson: Movement Style, Movement Features, and the Recognition of Affect from Human Movement
• 12: Nikolaus F. Troje: Retrieving Information freom Human Movement Patterns
• 13: Emily D. Grossman: Neurophysiology of Action Recognition
• 14: Andrea S. Heberlein: Animacy and Intention in the Brain: Neuroscience of Social Event Perception
• Section 2: Segmenting Events
• 15: Stephan Schwan and Bärbel Garsoffky: The Role of Segmentation in Perception and Understanding of Events
• 16: Thomas F. Shipley and Mandy J. Maguire: Geometric Information for Event Segmentation
• 17: Barbara Tversky, Jeffrey M. Zacks, and Bridgette Martin Hard: The Structure of Experience
• Part IV Representing and Remembering Events
• Overview
• Section 1: Representing Events
• 18: Rama Chellappa, Naresh P. Cuntoor, Seong-Wook Joo, V.S. Subrahmanian, and Pavan Turaga: Computational Vision Approaches for Event Modeling
• 19: Daniel T. Levin and Megan M. Saylor: Shining Spotlights, Zooming Lenses, Grabbing Hands, and Pecking Chickens: The Ebb and Flow of Attention During Events
• 20: Phillip Wolff: Dynamics and the Perception of Causal Events
• Section 2: Remembering Events
• 21: Helen L. Williams, Martin A. Conway, and Alan D. Baddeley: The Boundaries of Episodic Memories
• 22: Frank Krueger and Jordan Grafman: The Human Prefrontal Cortex Stores Structured Event Complexes
• 23: Tatiana Sitnikova, Phillip J. Holcomb, and Gina R. Kuperberg: Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Human Comprehension