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Title The Oxford compendium of visual illusions / Arthur G. Shapiro and Dejan Todorović
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017
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Contents Cover; The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; How to Use the Website; Introduction; Part I: Introductory General Chapters; 1. Early History of Illusions; 2. Cross-Cultural Studies of Illusions; 3. Visual Illusion in a Comparative Perspective; 4. An Analysis of Theoretical Approaches to Geometrical-Optical Illusions; 5. Visual Illusions in Action; 6. Motion Illusions in Man and Machine; 7. The Visual World as Illusion: The Ones We Know and the Ones We Don't; 8. Visual Illusions?; 9. Why the Concept of "Visual Illusions" Is Misleading
10. Where Have All the Illusions Gone? A Critique of the Concept of IllusionPart II: Geometrical; 11. Weighted Positional Averaging in the Illusions of the Müller-Lyer Type; 12. The Bar-Cross-Ellipse Illusion; 13. The Spinning Ellipse Speed Illusion; 14. The Ames Window Illusion and Its Variations; 15. Three-Dimensional Müller-Lyer Illusion: Theoretical and Practical Implications; 16. Why Do Hills Look So Steep?; 17. "Shape from Smear": An Illusion of 3D Shape, Made by Finger-Painting With Noise; 18. Geometric-Optical Illusions Under Isoluminance?
19. The Picture Surface Illusion: 3D Biases 2D20. Cast Shadow Illusions; 21. The Leaning Tower Illusion; 22. The Invisible Saddle, or the Cap-or-Cup Illusion; 23. Symmetry and Uprightness in Visually Perceived Forms; 24. The Bathtub Illusion; 25. The Pitchroom Illusion: How High Is Up?; 26. Geometric Illusions in the Human Face and Body; 27. Dynamic Illusory Size Contrast: Enhanced Relative Size Effects Due to Stimulus Motion; 28. Size Contrast and Assimilation in the Delboeuf and Ebbinghaus Illusions; 29. The Occlusion, Configural Shape, and Shrinkage Illusions
30. Reverse-Perspective Art and Objects-Illusions in Depth and Motion31. The New Moon Illusion; 32. Geometrical Errors Are the Cost of Maintaining the Luminance Contrast Polarity; 33. Antigravity Slopes: A New Type of Visual Illusion; 34. The Geometrical-Optical Illusions of J.J. Oppel; 35. Oppel-Kundt Illusion; 36. The Shifted-Chessboard Pattern as Paradigm of the Exegesis of Geometrical-Optical Illusions; Part III: Brightness/Lightness/Color; 37. A Layered Experience of Lightness and Color; 38. Color and Luminance: Afterimages, Combinations, and Flicker; 39. The White Effect
40. The Dungeon Illusion41. The Contrast Illusion; 42. Illusory Color Spread from Apparent Motion; 43. The Reversed Contrast Necker Cube; 44. Changing the Chevreul Illusion by a Background Luminance Ramp; 45. The Curved Grid Non-Illusions: Eliminating Hermann's Spots and Lingelbach's Scintillation; 46. The Staircase Gelb Illusion; 47. The Breathing Light Illusion: Illusory Size and Brightness Variation Induced by Motion; 48. Large Shift in Brightness Induced by Motion in Context; 49. The Chromatic Mach Card; 50. Color Assimilation; 51. When Light Looks Like Paint
Summary Visual illusions are compelling phenomena that draw attention to the brain's capacity to construct our perceptual world. This collection includes over 100 chapters on visual illusions, written by the illusions' creators and vision scientists who have investigated mechanisms underlying their peculiarities
Notes Previously issued in print: 2017
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 5, 2017)
Subject Optical illusions.
Visual perception.
Optical Illusions
Visual Perception
optical illusion.
visual perception.
MEDICAL -- Physiology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Visual perception.
Optical illusions.
Optische Täuschung
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Kunst
Optik
Form Electronic book
Author Shapiro, Arthur (Arthur Gilman), editor.
Todorović, Dejan, editor
ISBN 9780190654795
0190654791
9780199794744
019979474X
Other Titles Compendium of visual illusions
Visual illusions