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The Joel E. Cohen Translation of Abraham Moles's "Information Theory and Esthetic Perception"

Abraham Moles's newly translated Information Theory and Esthetic Perception is a book with one interesting idea, which emerges, crablike, from the murky burrow of Chapter Five. The idea is that ...
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Describing the Perception of Tonality in Music: A Critique of the Tonal Hierarchy Theory and a Proposal for a Theory of Intervallic Rivalry

Strengths and limitations of the tonal hierarchy theory, and of the probetone testing procedure used to substantiate that theory, are discussed. The tonal hierarchy theory is characterized as an ...
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Relativism in Gibson's Theory of Picture Perception

The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter 1993), pp. 51-69 (19 pages) J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to depiction is compared with Nelson Goodman's relativist theory of ...
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Perception Of Color Contrast, Constancy Depends On Neural "Reflexes," Says Vision Theory

In the latest in a series of papers proposing that visual perception is an intricate collection of reflexes similar to the familiar ‘knee jerk' response, Duke University Medical Center neurobiologists ...