The Moon Illusion - Hardcover
This unique volume attempts to answer one of mankind's oldest puzzles -- why the moon appears to be larger and closer on the horizon than when it is high in the sky. Over the centuries, many viable solutions have been proposed for this psychological phenomenon. The Moon Illusion presents papers by major theorists striving to explain the illusion and providing commentaries on the works of others.
Research on the moon illusion has been scattered throughout journals in many disciplines including philosophy, physiology, physics, and psychology. As the first publication to present a comprehensive treatment of the problem, this book is of vital interest to professionals whose major concern is visual perception, experimental psychology, or the neurosciences. Of additional interest to those whose focus is physics or astronomy.
Research on the moon illusion has been scattered throughout journals in many disciplines including philosophy, physiology, physics, and psychology. As the first publication to present a comprehensive treatment of the problem, this book is of vital interest to professionals whose major concern is visual perception, experimental psychology, or the neurosciences. Of additional interest to those whose focus is physics or astronomy.
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Hershenson has done an excellent job in collecting reviews by all the important figures in the field, and in allowing them to debate with each other (by providing them with reprints of each other's chapters)....The book is useful reading for anyone wanting to understand human visual perception....I heartily recommend this book.
—Perception
The Moon Illusion contains a great deal of information about space perception that should be accessible to the general reader as well as to the specialist.
—Science
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- PublisherPsychology Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0805801219
- ISBN 13 9780805801217
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages472
- EditorHershenson Maurice
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