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Visual perception : an introduction / Nicholas J. Wade and Michael T. Swanston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wade, Nicholas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual perception.
- Visual discrimination.
- Motion perception (Vision).
- Vision--History.
- Vision.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hove, East Sussex [U.K.] : Psychology Press ; Philadelphia : Taylor & Francis, 2001.
- Contents:
- Functions of visual perception 2
- Models of visual perception 6
- Measuring visual perception 11
- Visual perception and the physical environment 20
- Development of perception 22
- When vision goes wrong 25
- 2 The heritage 32
- Optics 33
- Art and representation 43
- Life sciences 49
- Philosophy 59
- Psychology 70
- 3 Light and the eye 85
- Visual optics 86
- Visual neurophysiology 102
- 4 Location 143
- Frames of reference 144
- Visual direction 149
- Visual distance 159
- Navigation 176
- 5 Motion 178
- Sources of motion stimulation 180
- Motion phenomena 185
- Retinocentric motion 195
- Egocentric motion 202
- Geocentric motion 208
- 6 Recognition 215
- Perceiving object properties 216
- Perceptual constancies 217
- Recognising objects 226
- 7 Representations and vision 236
- Pictures and objects 237
- Computer-generated displays 250.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-276) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1841692034
- 1841692042
- OCLC:
- 45750246
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