BIC SubjectsPerception

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Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses

Danièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino

Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses describes the collective elaboration of a situated cognitive approach with an emphasis on the relations between language and cognition within and across different sensory modalities and practices. This approach, grounded in 40 years of empirical… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 24] 2021. xxv, 598 pp.

The Expressiveness of Perceptual Experience: Physiognomy reconsidered

Martin S. Lindauer

A face strikes us immediately as sad, and so, too, do a mourner, a willow tree, a house on a prairie, and a group of onlookers. The spontaneous emergence of affective and other qualities of people, things, places, and events falls under the heading of physiognomy, a phenomenon discussed since at… read more

[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 8] 2013. xi, 174 pp.

Olfactory Cognition: From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience

Edited by Gesualdo M. Zucco, Rachel S. Herz and Benoist Schaal

This book was conceived as a tribute to one of the founders of the psychological study of the sense of smell, Professor Trygg Engen. The book is divided into four sections. The first reunites the fields of psychophysics and the perception of environmental odours and discusses the impact of odours… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 85] 2012. xx, 317 pp.