David A. Rosenbaum - Action, Mind, and Brain: An Introduction

ACTION, MIND, AND BRAIN

An Introduction

David A. Rosenbaum

The MIT Press

Cambridge, Massachusetts

London, England

2022 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rosenbaum, David A., author.

Title: Action, mind, and brain : an introduction / David A. Rosenbaum.

Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021018188 | ISBN 9780262543392 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Movement, Psychology of. | Motor learning. | Expectation (Psychology) | Brain.

Classification: LCC BF295 .R667 2022 | DDC 152.3/34--dc23

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List of Figures

Plato.

Ren Descartes.

Cartesian coordinates, a circle, and the equation for that circle.

Omar Khayyam.

John Locke.

Immanuel Kant.

Karl Marx.

U.S. postage stamp showing John Dewey, issued October 21, 1968.

Two views of behavior. Top panel: the reflex view. Bottom panel: the perceptionaction cycle view.

Gilbert Ryle.

Jessica Witt (left panel) and Sian Beilock (right panel).

Charlotte Cooper, the first female Olympic tennis champion and first individual female Olympic champion, in 1900.

Main staircase in Grand Central Station, New York City.

Number of looks down by people descending a staircase plotted as a function of the number of steps from the bottom of the staircase (left panel) and an idealized person standing on the steps of the staircase looking straight ahead (right panel). In the right panel, the horizontal dashed lines show the straight-ahead line of sight, while the solid downward lines show the bottom edge of the lower visual field.

Leland Stanford (left) and Eadward Muybridge (right).

Muybridges photographs of a horse in motion.

Thomas Edison.

Drawings of a diving gannet based on movie frames.

Hand approaching an object.

Biological motion perception based on moving dots alone.

Actor Jason Gatt in a motion-capture outfit for the character Kratos from God of War IIand IIIon the mocap stage for SCEA in San Diego (left panel) and Kratos himself (right panel).

Hermann von Helmholtz.

Eye exam with an ophthalmoscope.

Franciscus Donders.