Nicholas Wade's articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times. In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn, Wade reveals humanity's origins as never before--a journey made possible only recently by genetic science, whose incredible findings have answered such questions as: What was the first human language like? How large were the first societies, and how warlike were they? When did our ancestors first leave Africa, and by what route did they leave? By eloquently solving these and numerous other mysteries, Wade...
Nicholas Wade's articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times. In his grou...
Eye movements are a vital part of our interaction with the world. They play a pivotal role in perception, cognition, and education. This book is unique in tracing the history of eye movement research. It shows how great strides were made in this area long before modern recording devices were available. Anyone interested in the origins of psychology and neuroscience will find much to stimulate and surprise them in this valuable new work.
Eye movements are a vital part of our interaction with the world. They play a pivotal role in perception, cognition, and education. This book is uniqu...
Eye movements are a vital part of our interaction with the world. This book traces the history of eye movement research, and shows how great strides were made in this area long before modern recording devices were available. It is useful for those interested in the origins of psychology and neuroscience.
Eye movements are a vital part of our interaction with the world. This book traces the history of eye movement research, and shows how great strides w...
My fIrst encounter with the name of William Charles Wells, over twenty years ago, was an oblique reference to his Essay upon single vision that Wheatstone (1838) made in a classical article on binocular vision. The reference was enigmatic because it stated that few had paid attention to Wells' theory of visual direction, while doing little to infonn the reader of its novelty. I was fortunate in having the excellent facility of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department of the Library at the University of St. Andrews near at hand, so that I could cousult a copy of Wells' monograph. However, I...
My fIrst encounter with the name of William Charles Wells, over twenty years ago, was an oblique reference to his Essay upon single vision that Wheats...
Our contact with the world is through perception, and therefore the study of the process is of obvious importance and signi?cance. For much of its long history, the study of perception has been con?ned to natural- tic observation. Nonetheless, the phenomena considered worthy of note have not been those that nurture our survival the veridical features of perception but the oddities or departures from the common and c- monplace accuracies of perception. With the move from the natural world to the laboratory the oddities of perception multiplied, and they received ever more detailed scrutiny. My...
Our contact with the world is through perception, and therefore the study of the process is of obvious importance and signi?cance. For much of its lon...
The notion, central to neuroscience, that all subjective experiences have objective correlates was first formulated by the 19th-century Czech scientist Jan Evangelista Purkinje (d. 1869) in his dissertation on vision. Never before translated into English, this dissertation comprises the main body of
The notion, central to neuroscience, that all subjective experiences have objective correlates was first formulated by the 19th-century Czech scientis...
A New York Times science reporter makes a startling new case that religion has an evolutionary basis. For the last 50,000 years, and probably much longer, people have practiced religion. Yet little attention has been given to the question of whether this universal human behavior might have been implanted in human nature. In this original and thought-provoking work, Nicholas Wade traces how religion grew to be so essential to early societies in their struggle for survival, how an instinct for faith became hardwired into human nature, and how it provided an impetus for law...
A New York Times science reporter makes a startling new case that religion has an evolutionary basis. For the last 50,000 years, a...
Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that enters our eyes to the complex cognitive processes that follow, we derive most of our information about what things are, where they are, and how they move from our vision. Visual Perception takes a refreshingly different approach to this enigmatic sense. From the function that vision serves for an active observer, to the history of visual perception itself the third edition has been extensively revised, updated and expanded, while still preserving the essential features of historical context, neurophysiology and independent thought that...
Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that enters our eyes to the complex cognitive processes that follow, we derive most of our informati...
Both visual artists and scientists have produced patterns that perplex our perceptions and present us with puzzles that we are pleased to peruse. Art and illusionists presents these two poles of pictorial representation as well as presenting novel `perceptual portraits' of the artists and scientists who have augmented the art of illusion.
Both visual artists and scientists have produced patterns that perplex our perceptions and present us with puzzles that we are pleased to peruse. Art ...
