The Resource Symmetry, causality, mind, Michael Leyton
Symmetry, causality, mind, Michael Leyton
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- Summary
- Michael Leyton's arguments about the nature of perception and cognition are fascinating, exciting, and sure to be controversial. In this investigation of the psychological relationship between shape and time, Leyton argues compellingly that shape is used by the mind to recover the past and as such it forms a basis for memory. He elaborates a system of rules by which the conversion to memory takes place and presents a number of detailed case studies - in perception, linguistics, art, and even political subjugation - that support these rules. Leyton observes that the mind assigns to any shape a causal history explaining how the shape was formed. We cannot help but perceive a deformed can as a dented can. Moreover, by reducing the study of shape to the study of symmetry, he shows that symmetry is crucial to our everyday cognitive processing. Symmetry is the means by which shape is converted into memory. Perception is usually regarded as the recovery of the spatial layout of the environment. Leyton, however, shows that perception is fundamentally the extraction of time from shape. In doing so, he is able to reduce the several areas of computational vision purely to symmetry principles. Examining grammar in linguistics, he argues that a sentence is psychologically represented as a piece of causal history, an archeological relic disinterred by the listener so that the sentence reveals the past. Again through a detailed analysis of art he shows that what the viewer takes to be the experience of a painting is in fact the extraction of time from the shapes of the painting. Finally he highlights crucial aspects of the mind's attempt to recover time in examples of political subjugation. Michael Leyton is a professor in the Psychology Department at Rutgers University. He is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigatory Award for outstanding work in cognitive science
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (630 pages)
- Note
- "A Bradford book."
- Contents
-
- 5.
- Groups and symmetry
- 6.
- Domain-independent rules
- 7.
- Linguistics
- 8.
- Art
- 9.
- Political prisoners
- 1.
- Recovering process-history
- 2.
- Traces
- 3.
- Radical computational vision
- 4.
- Representation is explanation
- Isbn
- 9780585086309
- Label
- Symmetry, causality, mind
- Title
- Symmetry, causality, mind
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Leyton
- Subject
-
- Causation
- Causation
- Cognition
- Delivery of Health Care
- Electronic books
- Environment and Public Health
- Epidemiologic Factors
- Form Perception
- Geest
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
- Herinnering
- Learning
- Memory
- Mental Processes
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology
- Perception
- Psychiatry and Psychology
- Psychological Phenomena and Processes
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Quality of Health Care
- SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science
- Social Sciences
- Space Perception
- Symmetry -- Psychological aspects
- Symmetry -- Psychological aspects
- Time Perception
- Time perception
- Time perception
- Visual Perception
- Waarneming
- Causality
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Michael Leyton's arguments about the nature of perception and cognition are fascinating, exciting, and sure to be controversial. In this investigation of the psychological relationship between shape and time, Leyton argues compellingly that shape is used by the mind to recover the past and as such it forms a basis for memory. He elaborates a system of rules by which the conversion to memory takes place and presents a number of detailed case studies - in perception, linguistics, art, and even political subjugation - that support these rules. Leyton observes that the mind assigns to any shape a causal history explaining how the shape was formed. We cannot help but perceive a deformed can as a dented can. Moreover, by reducing the study of shape to the study of symmetry, he shows that symmetry is crucial to our everyday cognitive processing. Symmetry is the means by which shape is converted into memory. Perception is usually regarded as the recovery of the spatial layout of the environment. Leyton, however, shows that perception is fundamentally the extraction of time from shape. In doing so, he is able to reduce the several areas of computational vision purely to symmetry principles. Examining grammar in linguistics, he argues that a sentence is psychologically represented as a piece of causal history, an archeological relic disinterred by the listener so that the sentence reveals the past. Again through a detailed analysis of art he shows that what the viewer takes to be the experience of a painting is in fact the extraction of time from the shapes of the painting. Finally he highlights crucial aspects of the mind's attempt to recover time in examples of political subjugation. Michael Leyton is a professor in the Psychology Department at Rutgers University. He is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigatory Award for outstanding work in cognitive science
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Leyton, Michael
- Dewey number
- 153.7/53
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- BF468
- LC item number
- .L487 1992eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Bradford Books Ser
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Time perception
- Symmetry
- Causation
- Causality
- Form Perception
- Time Perception
- Cognition
- Memory
- Perception
- Epidemiologic Factors
- Mental Processes
- Learning
- Space Perception
- Quality of Health Care
- Visual Perception
- Public Health
- Psychological Phenomena and Processes
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
- Psychiatry and Psychology
- Environment and Public Health
- Delivery of Health Care
- SCIENCE
- PSYCHOLOGY
- Causation
- Symmetry
- Time perception
- Waarneming
- Geest
- Herinnering
- Psychology
- Social Sciences
- Label
- Symmetry, causality, mind, Michael Leyton
- Note
- "A Bradford book."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-620) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 5.
- Groups and symmetry
- 6.
- Domain-independent rules
- 7.
- Linguistics
- 8.
- Art
- 9.
- Political prisoners
- 1.
- Recovering process-history
- 2.
- Traces
- 3.
- Radical computational vision
- 4.
- Representation is explanation
- Control code
- 43475768
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (630 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780585086309
- Lccn
- 91024605
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)43475768
- Label
- Symmetry, causality, mind, Michael Leyton
- Note
- "A Bradford book."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-620) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 5.
- Groups and symmetry
- 6.
- Domain-independent rules
- 7.
- Linguistics
- 8.
- Art
- 9.
- Political prisoners
- 1.
- Recovering process-history
- 2.
- Traces
- 3.
- Radical computational vision
- 4.
- Representation is explanation
- Control code
- 43475768
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (630 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780585086309
- Lccn
- 91024605
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)43475768
Subject
- Causation
- Causation
- Cognition
- Delivery of Health Care
- Electronic books
- Environment and Public Health
- Epidemiologic Factors
- Form Perception
- Geest
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
- Herinnering
- Learning
- Memory
- Mental Processes
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology
- Perception
- Psychiatry and Psychology
- Psychological Phenomena and Processes
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Quality of Health Care
- SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science
- Social Sciences
- Space Perception
- Symmetry -- Psychological aspects
- Symmetry -- Psychological aspects
- Time Perception
- Time perception
- Time perception
- Visual Perception
- Waarneming
- Causality
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