CASCADES AND FIELDS IN PERCEPTUAL PSYCHOPHYSICS - Hardcover

Gregson, Robert A M

9789810223274: CASCADES AND FIELDS IN PERCEPTUAL PSYCHOPHYSICS

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9810223277 ISBN 13: 9789810223274

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 1995

Psychophysics is by definition mappings between events in the environment and levels of human sensory responses. In this text the methods of nonlinear dynamics, employing trajectories developed for simpler sensory modelling, are extended to classes of problems which lie at the interface between sensation and perception. A diversity of topics for which extensive empirical evidence exists are reformulated by writing their dynamics in terms of complex trajectories put into coupled lattices and into cascades of such lattices. Fundamental relationships between core processes of psychophysics in time and space, and recurrent quantitative or topological distortions of the physical world which arise in perception, are given a treatment which contrasts fundamentally with traditional linear equations in use since the 19th century.

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