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1 online resource (x, 253 pages, 8 pages of plates) : color illustrations
Many of us have been fascinated by visual illusions at some point, and have asked ourselves why something can look like one thing when it is fact something else. This book brings together psychologists and philosophers to explore this aspect of vision.
Introduction : visual experience / Gary Hatfield, Sarah Allred -- Part I: Cognitive and phenomenal factors in spatial perception. Judging the size of a distant object : strategy use by children and adults / Carl E. Granrud ; Phenomenal and cognitive factors in spatial perception / Gary Hatfield -- Sensory and cognitive explanations for a century of size constancy reseearch / Mark Wagner ; Constant enough : on the kinds of perceptual constancy worth having / Frank H. Durgin, Anna J. Ruff, and Robert C.. Russell -- Part 2: Historical and conceptual issues. Objective and subjective sides of perception / Alan Gilchrist ; A mechanistic perspective on the "given" / Donald I. A. MacLeod ; Spatial organization and the appearances thereof in early vision / Austen Clark ; Computation and the ambiguity of perception / Jonathan Cohen -- Part 3: Color constancy : memory, computation, and inference. High-level perceptual influences on color appearance / Maria Olkkonen, Thorsten Hansen, and Karl R. Gegenfurtner -- Constancy, content, and inference / David Hilbert ; Approaching color with Bayesian algorithms / Sarah Allred -- Epilogue : advances and open questions / Gary Hatfield and William Epstein.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.