The Spiral After-Effect
The Spiral After-Effect

Author: Harry C. Holland

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2016-07-29

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1483136019

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The Spiral After-Effect presents the visual phenomenon of the spiral after-effect in clinical investigations. This book explains how and under what conditions the illusion happens or can be modified. Organized into eight chapters, this book begins with an overview of the features of illusion that are similar to many of the characteristics of other movement perceptions, including vividness, velocity, and persistence. This text then examines the complex structure and the geometric function of the inducing stimulus. Other chapters consider the effects of drugs on the spiral illusion, which is rather strange when one considers the wide use of the phenomenon in patient groups who may be receiving substantial admixtures of compound for therapeutic purposes. This book discusses as well the relationship between intelligence and perception of the spiral after-effect. The final chapter deals with the conditioned after-effect. Clinical psychologists and readers who are interested in personality research will find this book useful.

The Motion Aftereffect
The Motion Aftereffect

Author: George Mather

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780262133432

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Motion perception lies at the heart of the scientific study of vision. The motion aftereffect (MAE) is the appearance of directional movement in a stationary object or scene after the viewer has been exposed to viusal motion in the opposite direction. For example, after one has looked at a waterfall for a period of time, the scene beside the waterfall may appear to move upward when one's gaze is transfered to it. Although the phenomenon seems simple, research has revealed copmlexities in the underlying mechanisms, and offered general lessons about how the brain processes visual information. In the 1990s alone, more than 200 papers have been published on MAE, largely inspired by improved techniques for examining brain electrophysiology and by emerging new theories of motion perception.

The Moving Tablet of the Eye
The Moving Tablet of the Eye

Author: Nicholas Wade

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-06-30

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780198566175

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Tracing the history of eye movement research, this work shows how great strides were made in this area before modern recording devices were available, especially in the measurement of nystagmus.

Binocular Vision and Stereopsis
Binocular Vision and Stereopsis

Author: Ian P. Howard

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 9780195084764

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This book is a survey of knowledge about binocular vision, with an emphasis on its role in the perception of a three-dimensional world. The primary interest is biological vision. In each chapter, physiological, behavioral, and computational approaches are reviewed in some detail, discussed, and interrelated. The authors describe experiments required to answer specific questions and relates them to new terminologies and current theoretical schemes.