Sensory Individuals Unimodal and Multimodal Perspectives

Sensory Individuals: Unimodal and Multimodal Perspectives provides an interdisciplinary, well-balanced, and comprehensive look at different aspects of unisensory and multisensory objects, using both nuanced philosophical analysis and informed empirical work.

The research presented in this book represents the field's progression from treating neural sensory processes as primarily modality-specific towards its current state of the art, according to which perception, and its supporting neural processes, are multi-modal, modality-independent, meta-modal, and task-dependent. Even within such approaches sensory stimuli, properties, brain activations, and corresponding perceptual phenomenology can still be characterized in a modality-specific way. The book examines the basic building blocks of human perception, and whether they are best understood as sensory modality dependent units of different forms or multimodal perceptual objects.

The book combines a variety of innovative and integrative angles to explore the topic and acts as a catalyst for an increasingly diverse field of research, which is in an exciting phase of growth and advancement. New questions are arising as quickly as they are being answered, and the collection Sensory Individuals provides an original and up-to-date addition to the field.

Introduction Sensory individuals: Contemporary perspectives on modality-specific and multimodal objecthood, Aleksandra Mroczko-Wrasowicz, Rick Grush
Part 1: Conceptual, developmental, and methodological aspects of studying sensory individuals
1. Origins of object concepts in infancy: A perceptual account, Scott P. Johnson, Gavin Bremner, Alan Slater
2. What makes something a perceptual object?, Aleksandra Mroczko-Wrasowicz, Nastazja Stoch, Paulina Zguda
3. Visual completion and intermediate representations in object formation, Philip J. Kellman, Viyehni Fuchser
4. Sensory binding without sensory individuals, Jake Quilty-Dunn
5. Figments of imagination: 'Scaffolded attention' creates non-sensory object and event representations, Joan Danielle K. Ongchoco, Brian J. Scholl
6. Perceptual variation in object perception: a defense of perceptual pluralism, Berit Brogaard, Thomas A. Sørensen
Part 2: Sensory individuals in unimodal perception
7. Looming perception: Seeing in a dynamic world, Frederique de Vignemont
8. Shine of bronze and sound of brass: the relational perceptual constructs of timbre and gloss, Alessandra Buccella, Mazviita Chirimuuta
9. Mechanisms underlying auditory object perception, Ronald DiTullio, Yale Cohen
10. Audition and composite sensory individuals, Nick Young, Bence Nanay
11. What is it we touch?, William Lycan
12. Human olfaction: A view from the top, Stephen Pierzchajlo, Jonas Olofsson
13. A world of odours, Clare Batty, Barry C. Smith
14. Smelling odours and tasting flavours: distinguishing orthonasal from retronasal olfaction, Benjamin D. Young
Part 3: Sensory individuals in multimodal perception
15. Material objects as the singular subjects of multimodal perception, Mohan Matthen
16. Multisensory feature integration, Charles Spence
17. Multimodal binding as mereological co-constituency, Jonathan Cohen
18. Visuo-haptic object processing in the multisensory brain, Simon Lacey, Krish Sathian
19. Crossmodal identification, Casey O'Callaghan
20. The multisensory perception of persistence, E. J. Green
21. Faces as multisensory individuals, Matthew Fulkerson
22. Multimodal structure of painful experiences, Bla:zej Skrzypulec
23. Pictures as supramodal sensory individuals, Fabrizio Calzavarini, Alberto Voltolini