Cognition through Color (Issues in the Biology of Language and Cognition Series)

Davidoff, Jules

ISBN 10: 0262041154 / ISBN 13: 9780262041157

Published by A Bradford Book (The MIT Press), Cambridge, UK, 1991

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First edition w/NAP, hardcover, has a shallow skew to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends, and a previous owner's name stamped to the tail of the text block with their embossed stamp to the title page. Overall, this is a solid, tight, Very Good copy in a like dust jacket, which has bumps with mild creasing to the spine ends and corners, faint sunning to the spine with a small peel at the head, and rubbing with very slight edge wear to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cognition through Color (Issues in the Biology of Language and Cognition Series)
• Publisher: A Bradford Book (The MIT Press), Cambridge, UK
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262041154
• ISBN 13: 9780262041157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biology
  • Psychology

About this title

Synopsis

A century ago phrenologists described a "bump" for color located just over the eyebrow. Today's modular approach to the organization of the visual cortex is more sophisticated, yet it still holds that there are brain areas dedicated solely to particular aspects of perception. Cognition through Color reviews the current status of investigations of color cognition from the standpoint of modern neuropsychology. It provides clear evidence, based on a large body of empirical study that includes the author's own work on color perception and naming, that color appears to be one of the basic building blocks or modules from which perception is constructed and our memories organized. Davidoff systematically relates this evidence to an explicit model of color cognition from sensation through functional role to naming.

The original impetus for Cognition through Color came from the investigation of individuals with brain damage. There are, for example, patients who have difficulty in naming colors. More important, despite normal color vision, memory for colors can be "split off" from all aspects of memory for shapes and objects, providing a strong case for the notion of modularity in vision.

Davidoff shows that to understand how color is remembered, we must know how objects are recognized. He observes that the perception of what we call color is, in essence, the study of the surface properties of objects, and he develops a model in which the mental representations for color can be linked to the knowledge of objects. Throughout he emphasizes detailed critical analysis of experimental data in light of current theories of both perception and cognition.

Jules Davidoff is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University College of Swansea.

Synopsis

Davidoff surveys and critiques current theories of color cognition from the perspective of modern neuropsychology, and provides evidence, based in part on his work with brain damaged patients, for the existence of a color module. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.