Brain and Perception

<p>Presented as a series of lectures this important volume achieves four major goals: <br><br> 1) It integrates the results of the author's research as applied to pattern perception -- reviewing current brain research and showing how several lines of inquiry have been converging to produce a paradigm shift in our understanding of the neural basis of figural perception. <br><br> 2) It updates the holographic hypothesis of brain function in perception.<br><br> 3) It emphasizes the fact that both distributed (holistic) and localized (structural) processes characterize brain function.<br><br> 4) It portrays a neural systems analysis of brain organization in figural perception by computational models -- describing processing in terms of formalisms found useful in ordering data in 20th-century physical and engineering sciences.<br><br> The lectures are divided into three parts: a Prolegomenon outlining a theoretical framework for the presentation; Part I dealing with the configural aspects of perception; and Part II presenting its cognitive aspects. The appendices were developed in a collaborative effort by the author Kunio Yasue and Mari Jibu (both of Notre Dame Seishin University of Okayama Japan).</p>