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Decision Processes in Visual Perception explores the relationships between the organization of a complex visual pattern by the perception system and the molecular activity involved in the discrimination of differences in magnitude or intensity between two stimulus elements.
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [1979] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Academic Press series in cognition and perception
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780127215501 |
| Summary: |
Decision Processes in Visual Perception explores the relationships between the organization of a complex visual pattern by the perception system and the molecular activity involved in the discrimination of differences in magnitude or intensity between two stimulus elements. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (vi, 406 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-396) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781483266282 1483266281 |
| Index Number: | BF241 |
| CLC: | B845.2 |
| Contents: |
Front Cover; Decision Processes in Visual Perception; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Dedication; Part I: Simple Decision Processes; Chapter 1. Introduction; Process, Constraint and Structure; The Evolution of the Vertebrate Visual System; The Roles of the Visual System in Human Evolution; The ""Scientific"" Role of the Visual System in Recent HumanDevelopment; A Strategy for Research; Chapter 2. Early Models of Discrimination; Introduction; The Classical Model; An Explanation of Response Bias and Intermediate Judgments by Signal Detection Theory; The Speed-Accuracy Trade-off. Fixed Sample Decision ModelsAn Optional-stopping Discrimination Process without a Memory; Chapter 3. Recent Models of Discrimination; Introduction; The ""Runs"" Model; The ""Random Walk"" Model; The ""Recruitment"" Model; An ""Accumulator"" Model; Chapter 4. Models for Three-categoryTasks and Judgments of Sameness and Difference; Models for Three-category Tasks; Signal Detection Accounts; Optional-stopping up to a Deadline; An Accumulator Model of Three-category Judgment; Judgments of Sameness and Difference; Response Probability and Signal Detection Accounts. The Relative Times for ""Same"" and ""Different""Responses and the Notion of a ClockAn Accumulator Model of ""Same-Different"" Judgments; Chapter 5. Signal Detection; The Classical Conception of the Absolute Threshold; Approaches Based on Signal Detection Theory; Counting Models; An Accumulator Model of Signal Detectipn; Conclusions; Part Il: Confidence and Adaptation; Chapter 6. Confidence; Confidence and Discriminability; Confidence and Response Time; Confidence as the Balance of Evidence; Confidence in Two-category Discrimination; Confidence in Three-category Tasks. Confidence in Same-Different JudgmentsConfidence in Signal Detection; Chapter 7. Adaptation; The Problem of Adaptation; An Adaptive Mechanism Based on Positive Feedback; An Adaptive Mechanism for Two-category Discrimination Based on Negative Feedback; General Properties of the Two-category Adaptive Accumulator Model; The General Adaptive Model; The Significance of a General Adaptive Module-Some General Conclusions; Part III: Complex Decision Processes; Chapter 8. The Identification of Stimuli. Hick's Serial Elimination Model and the Relation between Choice Reaction Time and the Number of Stimulus-Response AlternativesSerial Position Effects and a Parallel Elimination Process; A Parallel Eventuation Model; Some Basic Properties of an Adaptive Parallel Eventuation Process; Yerkes-Dodson Effects; Conclusions; Chapter 9. Perceptual Organization; Some Traditional Approaches to Perception; A Tentative Synthesis; Decision Processes in Figure-Ground Differentiation and Grouping; Decision Processes Underlying Changes in Perceptual Organization; Chapter 10. Further Developments. |