Applied Perception Research: An Introduction To This Handbook

Abstract

Perception has figured prominently throughout the history of experimental psychology. Following Herbart, Brentano, Helmholtz, Fechner, and Wundt - all of whom considered and researched perception phenomena - their students, the first generation of psychologists, carried the new science of psychology to universities around the world. As the psychology of perception matured, great integrators helped the field to consolidate vast tracts of experimental findings and to identify fruitful avenues for research. This is a fundamental and enduring pursuit. This Handbook covers core topics in research on perception, with an emphasis on application to “real-world” environments, primarily the workplace. Topic areas range from multisensory processing of information, to time perception, to sustained attention, to signal detection. There are also chapters on the pedagogical issues surrounding the training of a new generation of applied perception researchers. We have cajoled contributions from scientists who are working on many emerging areas of importance, such as human-robot coordination, olfactory and tactile displays, and virtual training systems. Chapters identify and discuss current and future trends in the application of perception psychology to issues facing societies in the twenty-i rst century (e.g., terrorism and threat detection, medical errors, pedagogical implications of technology). Rather than recapitulating each chapter, we briefly explain our overall organization of the Handbook. There are sections on the major areas of applied research, areas of theoretical and practical importance for the application of perception psychology to human performance and to the design and operation of human-technology work systems. These also address the challenges for basic research, including the problem of quantifying information, defining cognitive resources, and theoretical advances in the nature of attention and perceptual processes.

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Publication Title

The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Perception Research

Number of Pages

3-5

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511973017.005

Socpus ID

84954202460 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84954202460

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