Human body perception from the inside out

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Label

Human body perception from the inside out

Statement of responsibility

edited by Günther Knoblich [and others]

Contributor

• Knoblich, Günther

Subject

• Aufsatzsammlung
• Body Image
• Body image
• Perception
• Perceptual Disorders
• Proprioception

Genre

• Aufsatzsammlung

Language

eng

Summary

The human body has long inspired artists, philosophers, musicians, and writers. Researchers in the psychological sciences, however, have only relatively recently begun to acknowledge the role the body plays in perception and cognition. With the general notion of cognition recently broadening to include its embodied nature, researchers' accounts of perception have increasingly come to include the body's special status as a window on the world and to accommodate the specific perceptual requirements for identifying, interpreting, and interacting with other bodies. This volume presents a comprehensive overview of the rapid progress that has been made in understanding the human body and its relationship to perception. It will help to unify the relevant research from several independent areas of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience and facilitate the development of an integrated framework for the study of human-body perception. Its sections cover the four major lines of research that have contributed and will continue to contribute to this new framework: body and multimodal perception, body representation, perception of biological motion, and intention and action in body perception. Each chapter provides a state-of-the-art account of theoretical developments and empirical advances, and section introductions integrate the chapters and establish each section's place in the broader context of human-body-perception research. --From publisher's description

Member of

• Advances in visual cognition (Oxford, England)

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

152.1/88

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

BF697.5.B63

LC item number

H86 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Advances in visual cognition