A Theory of Perception

George Pitcher

ISBN 10: 0691071713 / ISBN 13: 9780691071718

Published by Princeton University Press, 1971

About this Item

In mylar. *From the library George Armitage Miller, noted psychologist and cognitive scientist.* Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Hardcover and dust jacket. Contemporary signature of Miller on front end page. George A. Miller, one of the founders of cognitive psychology, was a pioneer who recognized that the human mind can be understood using an information-processing model. His insights helped move psychological research beyond behaviorist methods that dominated the field through the 1950s. In 1991, he was awarded the National Medal of Science for his significant contributions to our understanding of the human mind.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Theory of Perception
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691071713
• ISBN 13: 9780691071718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 18 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

Presented here in a lucid, simple style is an extended defense of a behavioral and direct-realist theory of sense perception.

Originally published in 1971.

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About the Author

George Pitcher was industrial editor of "The Observer" during the Tory privatisation years. He quit while he was ahead when he was voted National Newspaper Industrial Journalist of the Year in 1991and co-founded Luther Pendragon, a communications consultancy operating at the sharp-end of industry and politics, with broadcast-news journalist Charles Stewart-Smith. Over the past decade, his firm has advised senior executives of companies and institutions facing some of the most high-profile and controversial issues of the age and formed the team that advised the Government's Cabinet Office project on the Millennium Bug. He continues to write regular business columns and commentaries and lives in London with his wife and four children.