1st Edition

Event Cognition An Ecological Perspective

Edited By Viki McCabe, Gerald J. Balzano Copyright 1986
    310 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    This series of volumes is dedicated to furthering the development of psychology as a branch of ecological science. In its broadest sense, ecology is a multidisciplinary approach to the study of living systems, their environ m ents, and the reciprocity that has evolved between the two. The purpose of this series is to form a useful collection, a resource, for people who wish to learn about ecological psychology and for those who wish to contribute to its development. The series will include original research, collected papers, reports of conferences and symposia, theoretical monographs, technical handbooks, and works from the many disciplines relevant to ecological psychology.

    I: Introduction: Event Cognition and the Conditions of Existence; Introduction: Event Cognition and the Conditions of Existence; II: Order in Behavior and Events; 1: The Direct Perception of Universals: A Theory of Knowledge Acquisition *; 2: Schemas in Cognition; 3: Abstract Conceptual Knowledge: How We Know What We Know *; 4: From Stimulus to Symbol *; 5: An Ecological Perspective on Concepts and Cognition; III: Visual Events; 6: Apprehending Pictorial Events *; 7: Thinking on Your Feet: The Consequences of Action for the Relation of Perception and Cognition; IV: Linguistic Events; 8: Motion Analysis of Grammatical Processes in a Visual-Gestural Language *; 9: Memory for Meaning: The Ecological Use of Language; V: Musical Events; 10: Invariants in Sound; 11: Music Perception as Detection Of Pitch—Time Constraints; VI: Social Events; 12: An Ecological Analysis of the Protection of Primate Infants; 13: Kinematic Specification of Gender and Gender Expression; 14: Epilogue: Cognition and Ethics

    Biography

    Viki Mc Cabe University of California, Los Angeles and Gerald Balazno University of California, San Diego.