Interrelations of the Communicative Senses. Proceedings of a Conference Held at Asilomar, California on September 29-October 2, 1978

摘要

An interdisciplinary team of 55 leaders in perceptual psychology, ethology, physiology, blind and deaf education, and systems engineering reviewed what is known about sensory and perceptual processing to project effective research directions in the field based on needs for fundamental and applied knowledge. The central concern was to examine problems and potentials for presenting information that is normally available to one input channel to some other channel. The first presentations dealt with normal human adult performance in perceiving, recognizing, and comprehending objects and events of the environment. Topics discussed included similarities and differences among sensory modalities, relations between the dimensions of spatial and sequential patterns, and characteristics of short-term memory. Other discussions were devoted to examining developmental aspects of sensory information processing with emphasis on perceptual learning. Attention focused on concepts of space-time dimensions, intervention strategies, special relations between perception and motor-production systems, and special benchmarks in the maturation process. The final session covered the state-of-the-art in pertinent man-made applications and the integration preceding discussions to identify perceived research needs and priorities.