Ebook: Visual perception : an introduction
Author: Nicholas Wade, Michael Swanston
- Year: 2001
- Publisher: Psychology Press
- City: Hove ; Philadelphia
- Edition: 2
- Language: English
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The book covers the perception of location, motion and object recognition. The machinery of vision is also described. The book places the study of vision in its historical context as our ideas have been shaped by art, optics, biology and philosophy.
Content: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface to first edition; Preface to second edition; Understanding visual perception; The heritage; Light and the eye; Location; Motion; Recognition; Representations and vision; Summary and conclusions; References; Name index; Subject index.
Abstract: The book covers the perception of location, motion and object recognition. The machinery of vision is also described. The book places the study of vision in its historical context as our ideas have been shaped by art, optics, biology and philosophy