563 pp., xviii. '1' in number line. Contents divided into 8 Sections:(1) "THE PUZZLE OF SEEING"; (2) "THE INDEPENDENCE OF VISION AND COGNITION"; (3) "THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE EARLY-VISION SYSTEM: COMPONENTS AND FUNCTIONS"; (4) "FOCAL ATTENTION: HOW COGNITION INFLUENCES VISION"; (5) "THE LINK BETWEEN VISION AND THE WORLD: VISUAL INDEXES"; (6) "SEEING WITH THE MIND'S EYE: PART 1, THE PUZZLE OF MENTAL IMAGERY"; (7) "SEEING WITH THE MIND'S EYE: PART 2, THE SEARCH FOR A SPATIALDISPLAY IN THE BRAIN"; (8) "SEEING WITH THE MINFD'S EYE: PART 3, VISUAL THINKING"; References, pp. 475-515; Name Index, pp. 516-526; Subject Index, pp. 527-563. Black cloth with brilliant gilt lettering on spine. Dustwrapper not price=clipped (no price) with brown top half and black lower half front cover, with 5/16" light blue strip wraparound across bottom dw edge; large surreal image at center front cover, superimposed over both brown and black backgrounds: Magritte's Les Memoires"; very light ruffling across top spine, with a tiny tear at each top spine corner and a tiny nick of the black at lower left spine edge, else unqualifiedly Fine: NOW in Brodart mylar which graciously forgives these sins. RE book itself: 3 pp. were jointly micro-dogeared (unintentionally, it appears: pp. 87, 89, 91, at bottom right page corners, fore-edge) and 3 pp., also at bottom right page corners, were creased (1 1/4" diagonal: pp. 125, 127, 129, with echoing soft crease, diminishingly, forward [through p. 138] and backward [through p. 87]): describes much worse than it is (NO text affected), but there you have it. Besides the page corner mishaps and 1/8" strip of diminished black across lower front cover edge (beneath the light blue strip on dustwrapper, which is NOT faded) book looks As New and UNREAD: Tight binding (NO crackes); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear; NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Classic Bradford-MIT publication in Philosophy of Language. Solid copy.

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T�tulo: Seeing and Visualizing: It's Not What You Think (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)
Editor: A Bradford Book / The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2003
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 0262162172
ISBN 13: 9780262162173
Encuadernaci�n: Hardcover
Edici�n: 1st Edition
Estado: Fine
Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine

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In Seeing and Visualizing, Zenon Pylyshyn argues that seeing is different from thinking and that to see is not, as it may seem intuitively, to create an inner replica of the world. Pylyshyn examines how we see and how we visualize and why the scientific account does not align with the way these processes seem to us "from the inside." In doing so, he addresses issues in vision science, cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive neuroscience.

First, Pylyshyn argues that there is a core stage of vision independent from the influence of our prior beliefs and examines how vision can be intelligent and yet essentially knowledge-free. He then proposes that a mechanism within the vision module, called a visual index (or FINST), provides a direct preconceptual connection between parts of visual representations and things in the world, and he presents various experiments that illustrate the operation of this mechanism. He argues that such a deictic reference mechanism is needed to account for many properties of vision, including how mental images attain their apparent spatial character without themselves being laid out in space in our brains.

The final section of the book examines the "picture theory" of mental imagery, including recent neuroscience evidence, and asks whether any current evidence speaks to the issue of the format of mental images. This analysis of mental imagery brings together many of the themes raised throughout the book and provides a framework for considering such issues as the distinction between the form and the content of representations, the role of vision in thought, and the relation between behavioral, neuroscientific, and phenomenological evidence regarding mental representations.

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Zenon W. Pylyshyn is Board of Governors Professor of Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is the author of Things and Places: How the Mind Connects with the World (MIT Press) and other books.

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