Experts from wine tasters to radiologists to bird watchers have all undergone perceptual learning-long-term changes in perception that result from practice or experience. Philosophers have been discussing such cases for centuries, from the 14th-century Indian philosopher Vedanta Desika to the 18th-century Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid, and into contemporary times. This book uses recent evidence from psychology and neuroscience to show that perceptual learning is genuinely perceptual, rather than post-perceptual. It also offers a taxonomy for classifying cases in the philosophical literature. In some cases, perceptual learning involves changes in how one attends; in other cases, it involves a learned ability to differentiate two properties, or to perceive two properties as unified. Connolly uses this taxonomy to rethink several domains of perception in terms of perceptual learning, including multisensory perception, color perception, and speech perception. As a whole, the book offers a theory of the function of perceptual learning. Perceptual learning embeds into our quick perceptual systems what would be a slower task were it to be done in a controlled, cognitive manner. A novice wine taster drinking a Cabernet Sauvignon might have to think about its features first and then infer the type of wine, while an expert can identify it immediately. This learned ability to immediately identify the wine enables the expert to think about other things like the vineyard or the vintage of the wine. More generally, perceptual learning serves to free up cognitive resources for other tasks. This book offers a comprehensive empirically-informed account, and explores the nature, scope, and theoretical implications of perceptual learning.

Perceptual Learning: The Flexibility of the Senses (Philosophy of Mind Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Connolly, Kevin

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

A distinctive exploration of the relationships between Sligo's landscape and the life and writings of W.B. Yeats. This unique book brings the reader on an illustrated journey of the biographical, geographical, and literary references to the city and county of Sligo and the surrounding area made during the lifetime and in the works of William Butler Yeats, one of Ireland's greatest poets.

Yeats and Sligo

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Brandon Books

Kevin Connolly’s four previous poetry books have garnered widespread critical acclaim and awards for their cutting humor, vivid language, and lyricism. Now comes Revolver. A daring marriage of brilliant technical skill and feverish imagination, Revolver features poems that are each written in a different form  revolving” through various styles while imbuing each with the precise control and sharp wit for which Connolly is noted. This much-anticipated follow-up to drift is both an ideal introduction to this master poet and a worthy successor to his earlier work.

Revolver

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

House of Anansi Press

Clyde Barrow's last daydream suggests a different finale; a reanimated Nietzsche contemplates Hitler's checked trousers; a dream about fast food reveals the secret life of a supermodel; Christopher Columbus plays the ship's lounge with singing radio. In this surreal, whimsical, and darkly ironic first collection, Connolly agilely navigates the more devious turns of the contemporary psyche.

Asphalt Cigar

ECW Press

In A Comprehensive Review of the Federal Budget, Kevin Connolly has reviewed the entire United States federal budget in painstaking detail. Leaving no agency stone unturned, and using the Constitution and common sense as his guide, he has identified the problem points and solutions thereto. Included is a proposal that could not only balance the budget immediately, but also pay off the entire National Debt in under a decade.

A Comprehensive Review of the Federal Budget

Politics & Government

Deviant Innovations LLC

There are so many people I have to thank for getting this book to publication. But firstly I have to thank "The Bride", Barbie Ann. How she has spent over 40 years with me I have no idea. Not only has she typed the original manuscript, but she has translated it from my Irish gibberish, into reasonable English, without loosing the content. Perhaps because she is the only person who can fully understand me. My good friend David Cunningham, has been a fantastic inspiration to me, and has helped enormously. Becky my eldest Granddaughter, who helped us old Farts to understand our computer. Chef, son, and best friend Stephen, who watches out for me at every turn. The friends that I have worked with over the years, and not to forget, without any hesitation, my customers without whom, I would not have had anything to write about.

The Last Irish Cowboy

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

AuthorHouse

Nine years (ahem...) in the making, award-winning Kevin Connolly’s new collection extends its author’s investigation of identity, authority, intention, and authenticity. What is a public poetry? In an age of tweets and trolls, what should it even try to be? Through revision, redaction, ventriloquism, homage, self-sabotage, and outright plunder, the poems in Connolly’s Xiphoid Process interrogate the alleged futility and alleged insight of mid-life. Are we who we are simply because we’d otherwise be nothing? Or are we (more hopefully) something parked, for a time, in time, trying to make something useful out of the experience? Walt Whitman, Tom Petty, Alec Baldwin, Doug Stanhope, Journey, Judd Nelson, Billy Ripken, Johnny Weissmuller, Don Felder, Lindsay Lohan, Shiprock, NM, the police blotter at Point Reyes Station, CA and the moons of Saturn are all poised to make their case in the poet’s latest deliberations.

Xiphoid Process

The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, London, Sligo and elsewhere in the west of Ireland, embracing the homes, landscapes and people that impacted his life and stimulated his vast body of work. Meet the poet’s father, the struggling artist John Butler Yeats; his mother Susan, the well-to-do Sligo girl who had no choice but to follow her husband’s path; his five siblings: Lily and Lolly, guiding lights in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement; Jack, the renowned painter; and Bobbie and Jane Grace, who died in infancy. Meet William Morris, John O’Leary, Katharine Tynan, George Moore, Oscar Wilde, Lady Gregory, Douglas Hyde, George Hyde-Lees, and, of course, Maud Gonne, as well as countless others who helped weave the cloth of Yeats’s poetic gift.

Arise And Go: W.B. Yeats and the people and places that inspired him

The O'Brien Press

The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, London, Sligo and elsewhere in the west of Ireland, embracing the homes, landscapes and people that impacted his life and stimulated his vast body of work.Meet the poet's father, the struggling artist John Butler Yeats; his mother Susan, the well-to-do Sligo girl who had no choice but to follow her husband's path; his five siblings: Lily and Lolly, guiding lights in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement; Jack, the renowned painter; and Bobbie and Jane Grace, who died in infancy. Meet William Morris, John O'Leary, Katharine Tynan, George Moore, Oscar Wilde, Lady Gregory, Douglas Hyde, George Hyde-Lees, and, of course, Maud Gonne, as well as countless others who helped weave the cloth of Yeats's poetic gift.

Fields of Glory, Paths of Gold: The History of European Football

This book tells the remarkable story of the growth of European football over the past 125 years, from the game's humble beginnings in England and Scotland to today's glittering Champions League, which is followed by millions around the world. The book charts the early course of the European game and examines how the Continental teams gradually caught up with the British masters and eventually overtook them.

Sports & Outdoors

MacWilliam, Rab

Football (American)

Mainstream Publishing

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Perceptual Learning: The Flexibility of the Senses (Philosophy of Mind Series)

Yeats and Sligo

Revolver

Asphalt Cigar

A Comprehensive Review of the Federal Budget

The Last Irish Cowboy

Xiphoid Process

Arise And Go: W.B. Yeats and the people and places that inspired him

Arise And Go: W.B. Yeats and the people and places that inspired him

Fields of Glory, Paths of Gold: The History of European Football