Perceiving Talking Faces: From Speech Perception to a Behavioral Principle [With Allows Experience of Perceptual Phenomena Directly]

by Dominic W. Massaro

Book Overview

Proposes an invariant law of pattern recognition to describe how continuously perceived information such as speech input is processed to achieve perception of a category.

Pattern recognition is deemed central to cognition. It appears to follow an optimal algorithm in a wide variety of behaviors and situations. Perceiving Talking Faces proposes an invariant law of pattern recognition to describe how continuously perceived information...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262133377
• ISBN13: 9780262133371
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 507 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher