1st Edition
The World in Your Head A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience
By Steven M. Lehar
Copyright 2003
312 Pages
by
Psychology Press
312 Pages
by
Psychology Press
312 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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The World In Your Head: A Gestalt View of the Mechanism of Conscious Experience represents a bold assault on one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science: the nature of consciousness and the human mind. Rather than examining the brain and nervous system to see what they tell us about the mind, this book begins with an examination of conscious experience to see what it can tell us about... Read more
Contents: Preface. The Two Worlds of Reality. The Dimensions of Conscious Experience. The Enigma of Gestalt Phenomena. The Computational Mechanism of Perception. The Perception of Illumination. Recognition vs. Completion, Abstraction vs. Reification. Relation to Neurophysiology. Harmonic Resonance Theory. Image Theory of Language and Cognition. Motor Control and Field Theory. A Psycho-Aesthetic Hypothesis. Appendices: The Coplanarity Field. The Occlusion Field. The Orthogonality Field. Edge Consistency and Inconsistency Constraints. Influence of the Visual Input.
Biography
Steven M. Lehar
"This powerful and inspiring book will fascinate those committed to psychological theory....Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals."
—CHOICE
