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1 online resource (587 pages) |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Visual Experience; Gary Hatfield and Sarah Allred; Part 1 Cognitive and Phenomenal Factors in Spatial Perception; 1 Judging the Size of a Distant Object: Strategy Use by Children and Adults; Carl E. Granrud; 2 Phenomenal and Cognitive Factors in Spatial Perception; Gary Hatfield; 3 Sensory and Cognitive Explanations for a Century of Size Constancy Research; Mark Wagner; 4 Constant Enough: On the Kinds of Perceptual Constancy Worth Having; Frank H. Durgin, Anna J. Ruff, and Robert C. Russell |
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Part 2 Historical and Conceptual Issues5 Objective and Subjective Sides of Perception; Alan Gilchrist; 6 A Mechanistic Perspective on the "Given"; Donald I.A. MacLeod; 7 Spatial Organization and the Appearances Thereof in Early Vision; Austen Clark; 8 Computation and the Ambiguity of Perception; Jonathan Cohen; Part 3 Color Constancy: Memory, Computation, and Inference; 9 High-Level Perceptual Influences on Color Appearance; Maria Olkkonen, Thorsten Hansen, and Karl R. Gegenfurtner; 10 Constancy, Content, and Inference; David Hilbert; 11 Approaching Color with Bayesian Algorithms |
| Summary |
Seeing' happens effortlessly and yet is endlessly complex. One of the most fascinating aspects of visual perception is its stability and constancy. As we shift our gaze or move about the world, the light projected onto the retinas is constantly changing. Yet the surrounding objects appear stable in their properties. Psychologists have long been interested in constancies, exploring questions such as: How good is constancy? Is constancy a fact about how things look, or is it a product of our beliefs and judgments about how things look? How can the contents of visual experience be studied experime |
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Print version record |
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Visual perception.
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Constancy.
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Visual Perception
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visual perception.
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Constancy
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Visual perception
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Allred, Sarah
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| ISBN |
9780191629068 |
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0191629065 |
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