Cognitive Ecology

Cognitive Ecology identifies the richness of input to our sensory evaluations, from our cultural heritage and philosophies of aesthetics to perceptual cognition and judgment. Integrating the arts, humanities, and sciences, Cognitive Ecology investigates the relationship of perception and cognition to wider issues of how science is conducted, and how the questions we ask about perception influence the answers we find. Organized in three sections, part one discusses how issues of the human mind are inseparable from the culture from which the investigations arise, how mind and environment co-define experience and actions, and how culture otherwise influences cognitive function. Parts two and three outline how philosophical themes of aesthetics have guided psychological research, and discuss the physical and aesthetic perception of music, film, and art. A concluding chapter presents an overview of how the senses interact for sensory evaluation.Friedman, Morton P. is the author of 'Cognitive Ecology' with ISBN 9780121619664 and ISBN 0121619664.