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Visual Information Processing
Sal Soraci, Kimiyo Murata-Soraci
Book Code: AB6852
ISBN: 1-56750-685-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-685-3
328 pages, figures, photos, tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2003
List Price: $91.95 (UK Sterling Price: £51.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Graduate and research collections.
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Description: Visual information processing in humans with intellectual disabilities and in animals is presented, for conceptual and methodological reasons. Much of the evolutionary path of higher primate species has involved the development of sophisticated visual systems that interact with complex, higher-order cognitive processes. Key questions in cognitive science address the manner in which the environment is represented by the organism, and thus relate to how knowledge about the world is gleaned, with implications for theories of action and decision making. Finally, it has become apparent that the distinction between perceptual and cognitive processes is not always a clear one, and that these processes interact in critical ways in underlying complex behavioral repertoires. Consistent with the emphasis in this series on individual differences, both typical and atypical development are explored here. Philosophical approaches to visualism are also presented. Chapters have import both for basic science and for the development of applications.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Human Visual Processing
  • Visual Factors in Cognitive Dysfunction and Enhancement in Alzheimer's Disease by Alice Cronin-Golomb and Grover C. Gilmore
  • Exploring Visual Perception Abilities in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: Assessment and Implications by Stephen Oross III and Charles B. Woods
  • Enhancing Performances of Individuals with Mental Retardation: Manipulations of Visual Structure by Michael T. Carlin, Sal A. Soraci, and Christina Strawbridge
  • Stimulus Overselectivity and Observing Behavior in Individuals with Mental Retardation by William V. Dube, et al.
  • Arousal Modulation of Neonatal Visual Attention: Implications for Development by Judith M. Gardner, Bernard Z. Karmel, and Micharl J. Flory
  • Visual Process Strengths in Down Syndrome: A Case for Reading Instruction? by Robert M. Hodapp and Tran M. Ly
  • Visual Variability Discrimination by Michael E. Young and Edward A. Wasserman
  • Animal Visual Processing
  • The Multiplicity of Visual Search Strategies in Pigeons by Jeffrey S. Katz and Robert G. Cook
  • The Search for Relational Learning in Cebus Apella: A Programmed "Educational" Approach by Romariz da Silva Barros, Olavo de Faria Galvao, and William J. McIlvane
  • Visualism: Philosophical Approaches
  • Visualism in Space by Don Ihde
  • Technology, Transcendence, and Modernity: Marcel and Jaspers by Gregory J. Walters
  • Alterity in Memory by Kimiyo Murata-Soraci
LC Card Number: 2002029331
LCC Class: BF241
Dewey Class: 152
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