Microgenesis, Immediate Experience and Visual Processes in Reading

Rosenthal, Victor

doi:10.1007/1-4020-2081-3_11

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“…Methodologically, this kind of experimental approach shares notable similarities with the microgenetic method of developmental psychology (Siegler and Crowley, 1991 ). According to Rosenthal ( 2004 ), the latter draws on a long tradition which had two key methodological aims, namely “to provide the means of externalizing the course of brief perceptual, or other cognitive processes by artificially eliciting ‘primitive’ (i.e., developmentally early) responses that are normally occulted by the final experience” and “to construct small-scale, living models of large-scale developmental processes in such a way as to ‘miniaturize’ (i.e., accelerate and/or telescope) the course of a given process and bring it under experimental control” (p. 221). Regarding the perceptual crossing paradigm, the choice of asking participants to interact via a novel, minimalist HCI is motivated by the same aims of externalizing and recapitulating the processes underlying the constitution of otherwise already formed perceptual experiences, and thereby making these processes available for scientific investigation (for another example of this approach, see Lenay and Steiner, 2010 ).…”

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Using minimal human-computer interfaces for studying the interactive development of social awareness

2014

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According to the enactive approach to cognitive science, perception is essentially a skillful engagement with the world. Learning how to engage via a human-computer interface (HCI) can therefore be taken as an instance of developing a new mode of experiencing. Similarly, social perception is theorized to be primarily constituted by skillful engagement between people, which implies that it is possible to investigate the origins and development of social awareness using multi-user HCIs. We analyzed the trial-by-trial objective and subjective changes in sociality that took place during a perceptual crossing experiment in which embodied interaction between pairs of adults was mediated over a minimalist haptic HCI. Since that study required participants to implicitly relearn how to mutually engage so as to perceive each other's presence, we hypothesized that there would be indications that the initial developmental stages of social awareness were recapitulated. Preliminary results reveal that, despite the lack of explicit feedback about task performance, there was a trend for the clarity of social awareness to increase over time. We discuss the methodological challenges involved in evaluating whether this trend was characterized by distinct developmental stages of objective behavior and subjective experience.

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Using minimal human-computer interfaces for studying the interactive development of social awareness

2014

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“…Microgenesis refers to psychodynamic processes unfolding in a present-time scale from global to local instantiation of a realized percept or experienced mental event (Werner, 1956; Rosenthal, 2004). A key feature is that form, meaning and value are not independent, but unfold simultaneously from resources within the entire brain (Brown, 1988).…”

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In the Beginning Was the Familiar Voice: Personally Familiar Voices in the Evolutionary and Contemporary Biology of Communication

Sidtis

Kreiman

2011

Integr. psych. behav.

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The human voice is described in dialogic linguistics as an embodiment of self in a social context, contributing to expression, perception and mutual exchange of self, consciousness, inner life, and personhood. While these approaches are subjective and arise from phenomenological perspectives, scientific facts about personal vocal identity, and its role in biological development, support these views. It is our purpose to review studies of the biology of personal vocal identity -- the familiar voice pattern-- as providing an empirical foundation for the view that the human voice is an embodiment of self in the social context. Recent developments in the biology and evolution of communication are concordant with these notions, revealing that familiar voice recognition (also known as vocal identity recognition or individual vocal recognition) or contributed to survival in the earliest vocalizing species. Contemporary ethology documents the crucial role of familiar voices across animal species in signaling and perceiving internal states and personal identities. Neuropsychological studies of voice reveal multimodal cerebral associations arising across brain structures involved in memory, emotion, attention, and arousal in vocal perception and production, such that the voice represents the whole person. Although its roots are in evolutionary biology, human competence for processing layered social and personal meanings in the voice, as well as personal identity in a large repertory of familiar voice patterns, has achieved an immense sophistication.

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“…From a phenomenological perspective, we are interested in the microgenesis (Brown, 2000;Rosenthal, 2004) of immediate visual awareness. Immediate visual awareness is a sequence of 'presentations' that simply happen to an observer.…”

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Shading, a View from the Inside

Koenderink¹,

Doorn²,

Pont³

2012

Seeing and Perceiving

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Shape from shading arose from artistic practice, and later experimental psychology, but its formal structure has only been established recently by computer vision. Some of its algorithms have led to useful applications. Psychology has reversely borrowed these formalisms in attempts to come to grips with shading as a depth cue. Results have been less than spectacular. The reason might well be that these formalisms are all based on Euclidean geometry and physics (radiometry), which, are the right tools in third person accounts, but have little relevance to first person accounts, and thus are biologically (and consequently psychologically) of minor interest. We propose a formal theory of the shading cue in the first person account, 'a view from the inside'. Such a perspective is also required for autonomous robots in AI. This formalism cannot be based on Euclidean geometry, nor on radiometry, but on the structure of pictorial space, and the structure of brightness space. The formalism, though different in kind, has a simple relation to the computer vision accounts. It has great robustness, is free from calibration issues, and allows purely local shape inferences. It is especially suited to biological (and thus AI) implementation. We consider a number of predictions and confront them with available empirical evidence.

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Microgenesis, Immediate Experience and Visual Processes in Reading

Cited by 36 publications

References 50 publications

Using minimal human-computer interfaces for studying the interactive development of social awareness

Using minimal human-computer interfaces for studying the interactive development of social awareness

In the Beginning Was the Familiar Voice: Personally Familiar Voices in the Evolutionary and Contemporary Biology of Communication

Shading, a View from the Inside

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