Visual Experience

Visual Experience

Author: Gary Hatfield

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-06-21

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0191629065

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'Seeing' happens effortlessly and yet is endlessly complex. One of the most fascinating aspects of visual perception is its stability and constancy. As we shift our gaze or move about the world, the light projected onto the retinas is constantly changing. Yet the surrounding objects appear stable in their properties. Psychologists have long been interested in constancies, exploring questions such as: How good is constancy? Is constancy a fact about how things look, or is it a product of our beliefs and judgments about how things look? How can the contents of visual experience be studied experimentally? However, philosophers have long been interested in characterizing visual experience and have become widely interested in the constancies more recently. As psychologists and philosophers have interacted, new questions have arisen: should we regard any departure from constancy as a failure of the visual system, or might it be a reasonable or adaptive response? In what circumstances is 'seeing' highly conditioned by cognitive factors such as background assumptions, and in what circumstances not? Visual Experience explores size constancy and color constancy. It considers methodologies for studying conscious visual perception, efforts to describe visual experience in relation to constancy, what it means that constancy is not always perfect, and the conceptual resources needed for explaining visual experience. This interdisciplinary book is invaluable for both vision scientists and philosophers of mind.


Stability and Constancy in Visual Perception

Stability and Constancy in Visual Perception

Author: William Epstein

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13:

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Historical introduction to the constancies; Visuomotor coordination in visual direction and position constancies; The constancies in object orientation: an algorithm processing approach; Stereoscopic depth constancy; The metric of visual space; Analysis of causal relations in the perceptual constancies; Instruction and perceptual constancy judgments; Illusion and constancies; Constancies in the perceptual world of the infant; In defense of unconscious inference; Spatial constancy and motion in visual perception; Lessons in constancy from neurophysiology; Observations concerning the contemporary analysis of constancies.


Perceptual Constancy

Perceptual Constancy

Author: Vincent Walsh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-08-13

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 9780521460613

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The world is not always truly reflected in what we see. The brain creates images, fills in gaps and even at times constructs fictions. This book brings together experts from several diverse fields to present state of the art accounts of how the visual world enters two small holes in our heads and is reconstructed to give us the rich impressions of color, movement, and shape.


Perception of Space and Motion

Perception of Space and Motion

Author: William Epstein

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 1995-09-15

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0080538614

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During the past 25 years, the field of space and motion perception has rapidly advanced. Once thought to be distinct perceptual modes, space and motion are now thought to be closely linked. Perception of Space andMotion provides a comprehensive review of perception and vision research literature, including new developments in the use of sound and touch in perceiving space and motion. Other topics include the perception of structure from motion, spatial layout,and information obtained in static and dynamic stimulation. Spatial layoutStructure from motionInformation on static and dynamic stimulation (visual, acoustic, and haptic)


Theories of Visual Perception

Theories of Visual Perception

Author: Ian E. Gordon

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004-09-30

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 1135424284

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Theories of Visual Perception 3rd Edition provides clear critical accounts of several of the major approaches to the challenge of explaining how we see the world. It explains why approaches to theories of visual perception differ so widely and places each theory into its historical and philosophical context. Coverage ranges from early theories by such influential writers as Helmholtz and the Gestalt School, to more recent work in the field of Artificial Intelligence. This fully revised and expanded edition contains new material on the Minimum Principle in perception, neural networks, and cognitive brain imaging.


Handbook of Perception and Action: Perception

Handbook of Perception and Action: Perception

Author: Wolfgang Prinz

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 0125161611

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This volume combines the classical fields of perception research with the major theoretical attitudes of today's research, distinguishing between experience- versus performance-related approaches, transformational versus interactional approaches, and approaches that rely on the processing versus discovery of information. Perception is separated into two parts. The first part deals with basic processes and mechanisms, and discusses early vision and later, yet still basic, vision. The second covers complex achievements with accounts of perceptual constancies and the perception of patterns, objects, events, and actions.


Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics Perspective

Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics Perspective

Author: William Thompson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 1466502762

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This book provides an introduction to human visual perception suitable for readers studying or working in the fields of computer graphics and visualization, cognitive science, and visual neuroscience. It focuses on how computer graphics images are generated, rather than solely on the organization of the visual system itself; therefore, the text pro


The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

Author: James J. Gibson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2014-11-20

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1317579380

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This book, first published in 1979, is about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their colors and textures); where we are in the environment; whether or not we are moving and, if we are, where we are going; what things are good for; how to do things (to thread a needle or drive an automobile); or why things look as they do. The basic assumption is that vision depends on the eye which is connected to the brain. The author suggests that natural vision depends on the eyes in the head on a body supported by the ground, the brain being only the central organ of a complete visual system. When no constraints are put on the visual system, people look around, walk up to something interesting and move around it so as to see it from all sides, and go from one vista to another. That is natural vision -- and what this book is about.