Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt
From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Behavior and Perception
Message-ID: <2700@dciem.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 88 20:12:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: dciem.2700
Posted: Sun Mar 27 15:12:05 1988
References: <626@dukempd.UUCP> <969@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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Keywords: Behavior, Perception, Glasser
Summary: 


Even now, 26 years later, I can still recommend "The Behavioral Basis
of Perception" by James G Taylor (no relation), Yale UP 1962.  The thesis
is that ALL perception can be derived from the possibility of distinctive
behavior to aspects of the stimulus set, and it is ONLY through these
distinctions that anything is perceived.  JG later accepted my proposal
that the input could be the result of self-teaching in a connectionist
net (The problem of stimulus structure in the behavioral theory of
perception, M.M.Taylor, S. African J of Psychology, 3, 1973, 23-45),
but his principles still seem largely valid.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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Talk, n. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse
without purpose. (Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914?, The Devil's Dictionary)