Two theories define the relationship between sensory experience and perception of
location. The doctrine of specific nerve energies relies on hard-wired, genetically specified …

Two theories define the relationship between sensory experience and perception of
location. The doctrine of specific nerve energies relies on hard-wired, genetically specified …

Perception is the over-all immediate response to stimulation of sense organs, the reaction
that expresses the organism's relation to the environment regardless of whether this …

Before the facts are stated, assimilated, and interpreted, the character of descriptive and
theoretical language used by those studying vision must be settled upon. Confusion is …

1 Physiological Optics Page 1 1 Physiological Optics Peter F. Sharp and Russell Philips 1.1
Introduction The earliest theories about the visual system regarded the eye as emitting "psychic …

The partition of the sciences one from another has in the main been determined by
psychological rather than by physical criteria. As the strictly physical view of the world …

This is a special issue dealing with mechanisms underlying human motion perception. A
novel feature is the inclusion of an Apple floppy disk so that readers can view some of the …

The close interaction of perception and action, an organizing theme of this book, can be
studied with a variety of methods. This chapter examines the physiological organization of …

This paper explores the concept of sensorimotor activity that is central to the enactive model
of visual perception developed in Alva Noë's book, Action in Perception. The appeal to …

The avowed aim of this volume is to document the status of research into the visual
mechanism and the laws of its operation in intact human perceivers. There are two major …