In the mind's eye : Julian Hochberg on the perception of pictures, films, and the world / edited by Mary A. Peterson, Barbara Gillam, H.A. Sedgwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hochberg, Julian E., author.

Contributor:

Peterson, Mary A., 1950- editor.

Gillam, Barbara, editor.

Sedgwick, H. A., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual perception.

Visual Perception.

Medical Subjects:

Visual Perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (657 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How can we best describe the processes by which we visually perceive our environment? This book seeks to bring the full range of Julian Hochberg's work by offering a selection of his key works. It is intended for researchers working on topics such as perceptual organisation, visual attention, motion perception, and film.

Contents:

1 Familiar size and the perception of depth

2 A quantitative approach to figural "goodness"

3 Apparent spatial arrangement and perceived brightness

4 Perception: toward the recovery of a definition

5 The psychophysics of pictorial perception

6 Pictorial recognition as an unlearned ability: a study of one child's performance

7 Recognition of faces

8 In the mind's eye

9 Attention, organization, and consciousness

10 Components of literacy

11 Reading as an intentional behavior

12 The representation of things and people

13 Higher-order stimuli and inter-response coupling in the perception of the visual world

14 Film cutting and visual momentum

15 Pictorial functions and perceptual structures

16 Levels of perceptual organization

17 How big is a stimulus

18 From perception: experience and explanations

19 The perception of pictorial representations

20 Movies in the mind's eye

21 Looking ahead (one glance at a time)

22 The piecemeal, constructive, and schematic nature of perception

23 Hochberg: a perceptual psychologist

24 Mental schemata and the limits of perception

25 Integration of visual information across saccades

26 Scene perception: the world through a window

27 "How big is a stimulus?": learning about imagery by studying perception

28 How big is an optical invariant?: limits of tau in time-to-contact judgments

29 Hochberg and inattentional blindness

30 Framing the rules of perception: Hochberg versus Galileo, Gestalts, Garner, and Gibson

31 On the internal consistency of perceptual organization

32 Piecemeal perception and Hochberg's window: grouping of stimulus elements over distances

33 The resurrection of simplicity in vision

34 Shape constancy and perceptual simplicity: Hochberg's fundamental contributions

35 Constructing and interpreting the world in the cerebral hemispheres

36 Segmentation, grouping, and shape: some Hochbergian questions

37 Ideas of lasting influence: Hochberg's anticipation of research on change blindness and motion-picture perception

38 On the cognitive ecology of the cinema

39 Hochberg on the perception of pictures and of the world

40 Celebrating the usefulness of pictorial information in visual perception

41 Mental structure in experts' perception on human movement

Julian Hochberg: biography and bibliography.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-029207-5

0-19-773584-3

1-280-96586-X

0-19-534359-X

1-4356-0546-2

OCLC:

437093699