Title Visual perception : an introduction / Nicholas J. Wade and Michael Swanston

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (x, 212 pages) Series Introductions to modern psychology Introductions to modern psychology. Contents Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Understanding visual perception; 2 The heritage; 3 Light and the eye; 4 Location; 5 Motion; 6 Recognition; 7 Summary and conclusions; Subject index Summary Vision is our most dominant sense, from which we derive most of our information about the world. From the light that enters the eye and the processing in the brain that follows, we can sense where things are, how they move and what they are. The first edition of Visual Perception took a refreshingly different approach, to perception, starting from the function that vision serves for an active observer in a three-dimensional environment. In this second edition Nicholas Wade and Michael Swanston have continued this approach in contrast to many traditional textbook treatments of vision as a catalogue of phenomena. The core of 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 as well as psychology. The authors have again provided a readable, accessible and truly relevant introduction to the world of perception that will be welcomed by students studying visual perception and those with a general interest Analysis Visual perception Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Visual perception. Discrimination. Perception. Human information processing. Visual discrimination. Motion perception (Vision) Vision -- History Visual Perception Discrimination, Psychological Perception Mental Processes Psychological Phenomena and Processes Psychiatry and Psychology Motion Perception visual perception. discrimination. PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology. Visual discrimination Vision Perception Motion perception (Vision) Human information processing Discrimination Visual perception Visuelle Wahrnehmung Visuele waarneming. Percepcao (psicologia) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Swanston, Michael, 1947- ISBN 0203133250 9780203133255 9780415010436 0415010438 1280328118 9781280328114

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