Events can be understood in terms of their temporal structure. The authors first draw on
several bodies of research to construct an analysis of how people use event structure in …

▪ Abstract Perceptual learning involves relatively long-lasting changes to an organism's
perceptual system that improve its ability to respond to its environment. Four mechanisms of …

The medieval curriculum comprised seven liberal arts, divided into the lower-level trivium
(grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the upper-level quadrivium (geometry, astronomy …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

Visual processing in cortex is classically modeled as a hierarchy of increasingly
sophisticated representations, naturally extending the model of simple to complex cells of …

This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition
continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in …

The cognitive neuroscience of human vision draws on two kinds of evidence: functional
imaging of normal subjects and the study of neurological patients with visual disorders …

Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human
cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how …

POSITRON emission tomography (PET) can be used to map brain regions that are active
when a visual object (for example, a hand) is discriminated from its mirror form …

Seven experiments tested whether human navigation depends on enduring representations,
or on momentary egocentric representations that are updated as one moves. Human …