Chapter 1
The five senses and the cognitivist approach to perception
Article outline
- 1.1The five senses: Tradition, evidence and mainstream
- 1.1.1The (Western) philosophical tradition
- 1.1.2The five senses from some psychology handbooks
- 1.2Technology of sensors and psychology
- 1.2.1Instruments for measuring the physical world
- 1.2.2Instruments and psychophysics
- 1.3The digital revolution: Computers and cognitive science
- 1.3.1The emergence of a cyberworld
- 1.3.2Psychology and cognitive science
- 1.4Main concepts at work in cognitive science
- 1.4.1Information and information processing
- 1.4.2Representation and knowledge
- 1.4.3The classificatory tradition and “natural” categories
- History: The classificatory tradition
- “Natural” categories in cognitive psychology
- 1.5Sensory science and product experience
- 1.5.1Humans as instruments in sensory science
- 1.5.2Descriptors for product experience
- 1.6Language and the senses
- 1.6.1Language and cognitive science: Words and things
- 1.6.2The semiotic triad
- 1.6.3Language and thought in cognitive linguistics
- 1.6.4Word games in wording the senses
- The word “sense”
- Naming the five senses
- 1.7Back to psychology: A no man’s land in cognitive science
- 1.8Structure of the book
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