Perceptual Constancy : Why Things Look as They Do

Vincent Walsh

ISBN 10: 0521153522 / ISBN 13: 9780521153522

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Perceptual Constancy examines a group of long-standing problems in the field of perception and provides a review of the fundamentals of the problems and their solutions. Experts in several different fields - including computational vision, physiology, neuropsychology, psychophysics and comparative psychology - present their approaches to one of the fundamental problems of perception: how does the brain extract a stable world from an ever-changing retinal input How do we achieve color constancy despite changes in the wavelength content of daylight How do we recognize objects from different viewpoints And how do we know the sizes of those objects The volume is divided into three sections, each of which addresses developmental, clinical and comparative issues, psychophysics, and physiology.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Perceptual Constancy : Why Things Look as They Do
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521153522
• ISBN 13: 9780521153522
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 33D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 33 millimeters depth
• Weight: 898 grams

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Synopsis

Perceptual Constancy examines a group of long-standing problems in the field of perception and provides a review of the fundamentals of the problems and their solutions. Experts in several different fields--including computational vision, physiology, neuropsychology, psychophysics and comparative psychology--present their approaches to some of the fundamental problems of perception: How does the brain extract a stable world from an ever changing retinal input? How do we achieve color constancy despite changes in the wavelength content of daylight? How do we recognize objects from different viewpoints? And how do we know the sizes of those objects? The volume is divided into three sections. The first describes color constancy, the second examines size, shape and speed, and the third section is on perceptual inconstancies.

Book Description

The world is not always truly reflected in what we see. The brain creates images, fills in gaps and even at times constructs fictions. This book brings together experts from several diverse fields to present state of the art accounts of how the visual world enters two small holes in our heads and is reconstructed to give us the rich impressions of color, movement, and shape.