Cascades and Fields in Perceptual Psychophysics
Author | : Robert Anthony Mills Gregson |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1995 |
ISBN-10 | : 9810223277 |
ISBN-13 | : 9789810223274 |
Rating | : 4/5 (274 Downloads) |
Download or read book Cascades and Fields in Perceptual Psychophysics written by Robert Anthony Mills Gregson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychophysics is by definition mappings between events in the environment and levels of human sensory responses. In this text the methods of nonlinear dynamics, employing trajectories developed for simpler sensory modelling, are extended to classes of problems which lie at the interface between sensation and perception. A diversity of topics for which extensive empirical evidence exists are reformulated by writing their dynamics in terms of complex trajectories put into coupled lattices and into cascades of such lattices. Fundamental relationships between core processes of psychophysics in time and space, and recurrent quantitative or topological distortions of the physical world which arise in perception, are given a treatment which contrasts fundamentally with traditional linear equations in use since the 19th century.