Bøger i Oxford Psychology Series serien

The Developing Visual Brain presents the definitive, authoritative work on the developing visual system, one based on over 20 years of research. While reviewing and evaluating the exciting progress that has been made in this area, the book additionally sets out and describes new areas for research in this area.

Designed to present neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists and ophthalmologists with an integrated view of how humans perceive the spatial relations in their visual world, this study covers anatomical, physiological, psychological and perceptual aspects.

This book presents a functional view of the frontal lobes. It argues that the frontal lobes are specialized for directing voluntary action. It considers each of the areas within the frontal lobes and suggests what contribution they make and how the areas interact.

Over the last decade, there has been a revolution in our understanding of the physiological role of the cochlea, and the mechanisms of cochlear hearing loss, the most common type of hearing loss in adults. However, the perceptual changes that accompany cochlear damage have been neglected, and this book provides a theoretical framework for understanding and interpreting these perceptual changes.

This text addresses the central problem of music cognition. Equally important, the work offers an analysis of the relationship between the psychological organization of music and its internal structure.

Conditioned taste aversion (CTA) is a defence device protecting animals against repeated consumption of toxic food. This text, reviews the current state of research into CTA, providing a summary of research into the neuroanatomy, pharmacology, electrophysiology, and functional morphology of CTA.

What are the mental processes involved in listening to, performing, and composing music? What is involved in 'understanding' a piece of music? The author addresses these questions by surveying growing experimental literature on the subject.

This work gives an account of the various lines of research on the general problem of implicit, unconscious acquisition of knowledge. "Implicit knowledge" is acquired independent of conscious attempts to learn and generally without the capacity to communicate what has been acquired.

In this volume Professor Paivio updates his influential theory of cognition and provides a systematic treatise on the structure of cognitive representations and their dynamic functions in thought and behavior.

S.S. Stevens' famous paper, On the psychophysical law, ignited a controversy relating to people's subjective judgements of physical reality. This brings together a diversity of ideas and a wealth of experimental evidence, and provides a challenging perspective on the question which has fragmented the research community for nearly 40 years.

Everyone has experienced visual discomfort of some kind or another. Visual stimuli which cause discomfort exist in a variety of everyday situations, from eye strain induced by VDU screens to garish carpets. Dr Wilkins has produced a unified theory of the mechanisms underlying visual discomfort, which has a number of applications including the treatment of epilepsy and the design of glasses.

Brings together and assesses past and present research on information processing, to formulate a model of this entire system. The author emphasizes that memory and attention cannot be considered independently and presents research from many areas to support his thesis.

This book reviews recent research on the ability of human listeners to discern changes in the shape of complex acoustic spectra - what is known as auditory profile analysis.

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) allow the electrical activity of the brain to be recorded from normal humans. This book provides an introduction for the non-specialist to the ERP method as applied to the study of cognitive processing - attention, the mental clock, memory, and language.

This book deals with brain mechanisms in human communicative behaviour, from a broadly biological point of view. Particular attention is paid to the control mechanisms of the oral, manual, and brachial movements which form the basics of our communication systems, and the way in which these interface with auditory and visual systems.

Reviews experiments and theories concerned with the relationship between perceptual and associative learning, and shows that even in apparently simple training procedures learning changes can occur in the way in which events are perceived.