This book... is an excellent way to find out about recent developments in this area... I found this book fascinating, highly stimulating and enjoyable, and highly recommend it to anyone interested in perception and/or neuropsychology.
Applied Cognitive Psychology
Many organisms possess multiple sensory systems, such as vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. The possession of such multiple ways of sensing the world offers many benefits. These benefits arise not only because each modality can sense different aspects of the environment, but also because different senses can respond jointly to the same external object or event, thus enriching the overall experience - for example, looking at an individual while listening to them speak. However, combining information from different senses also poses many challenges for the nervous system.
In recent years there has been dramatic progress in understanding how information from different sensory modalities gets integrated in order to construct useful representations of external space; and in how such multimodal representations constrain spatial attention. Such progress has involved numerous different disciplines, including neurophysiology, experimental psychology, neurological work with brain-damaged patients, neuroimaging studies, and computational modelling.
This volume brings together the leading researchers from all these approaches, to present the first integrative overview of this central topic in cognitive neuroscience.
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The possession of multiple ways of sensing the world offers many benefits. Combining information from different senses also poses many challenges for the nervous system. This title presents an overview of how information from the different senses gets integrated in order to construct useful representations of external space.
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1. Development of multisensory spatial integration ; 2. Crossmodal spatial interactions in subcortical and cortical circuits ; 3. A system of multimodal areas in the primate brain ; 4. Neuropsychological evidence for multimodal representations of space near specific body parts ; 5. Multimodal spatial representations in the primate parietal lobe ; 6. A computational neural theory of multisensory spatial representations ; 7. The psychology of multimodal perception ; 8. Crossmodal spatial attention: evidence from human performance ; 9. Electrophysiology of human crossmodal spatial attention ; 10. Functional imaging of crossmodal spatial representations and crossmodal spatial attention ; 11. Exogenous spatial-cuing studies of human crossmodal attention and multisensory integration
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The first overview of how inputs from multiple sensory systems are integrated in the brain
This is the first book on the topic of spatial representation and crossmodal attention, providing a unique source of reference for this important topic in cognitive neuroscience
The book is exceptionally broad in scope, offering perspectives from specialists in cognitive psychology, computational modelling, single cell neurophysiology, and neuroimaging, helping to bring together the scattered and diverse literature in this area.
Includes chapters from an international collection of authorities in this field, fully integrated and cross-referenced, to provide a coherent up-to-date overview of the field.
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This is the first book on the topic of spatial representation and crossmodal attention, providing a unique source of reference for this important topic in cognitive neuroscience
The book is exceptionally broad in scope, offering perspectives from specialists in cognitive psychology, computational modelling, single cell neurophysiology, and neuroimaging, helping to bring together the scattered and diverse literature in this area.
Includes chapters from an international collection of authorities in this field, fully integrated and cross-referenced, to provide a coherent up-to-date overview of the field.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780198524861
Publisert
2004
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
575 gr
Høyde
239 mm
Bredde
169 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
340