Seeing Is Deceiving: The Psychology of Visual Illusions

ISBN-13: 9780367506612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 268 str.

Stanley Coren; Joan Girgus

Opis

In this title, first published in 1978, the authors survey the historical and contemporary research relating to two-dimensional visual-geometric illusions. They summarise and evaluate theories offered to explain these phenomena. Then provide a new conceptual framework suggesting that visual illusions are not unitary phenomena.

Spis treści

Preface.  1. A Brief History of Visual Illusions  2. Size Illusions  3. Direction, Location, and Shape Illusions  4. Structural Factors in Illusion Formation: Optical Contributions  5. Structural Factors in Illusion Formation: Retinal Components  6. Structural Components in Illusion Formation: Central Neural Mechanisms  7. Illusions and Picture Processing Strategies  8. Global Impression and Averaging Strategies  9. Contrast and Difference Extraction Strategies  10. Composite Strategies, Perceptual Fields, and Quantitative Theories  11. Information, Sampling in Illusion Formation and Destruction  12. The Psychoanatomy of Visual Illusions  13. Toward a Taxonomy of Visual Illusions  14. Illusions: Implications and Extrapolations.  References.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

O autorze

Stanley Coren, Joan Girgus