| Description |
xxviii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
MIT Press/Bradford Books series in cognitive psychology |
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MIT Press/Bradford Books series in cognitive psychology.
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| Contents |
Foreword: The Legacy of Irvin Rock / Stephen E. Palmer -- Pt. I. On Indirect Perception: Introduction. Ch. 1. The Concept of Indirect Perception / Irvin Rock. Ch. 2. Percept-Percept Couplings / William Epstein -- Pt. II. Perceptual Organization: Introduction. Ch. 3. Grouping and Proximity / Irvin Rock and Leonard Brosgole. Ch. 4. Grouping and Lightness / Irvin Rock, Romi Nijhawan and Stephen E. Palmer [et al.]. Ch. 5. Grouping and Amodal Completion / Stephen E. Palmer, Jonathan Neff and Diane Beck -- Pt. III. Shape: Introduction. Ch. 6. Shape and the Retinal Image / Irvin Rock and Christopher M. Linnett. Ch. 7. Anorthoscopic Perception / Irvin Rock. Ch. 8. Induced Form / Irvin Rock and Alan L. Gilchrist. Ch. 9. Orientation and Form / Irvin Rock. Ch. 10. Symmetry / Irvin Rock and Robin Leaman. Ch. 11. The Right Angle / Donatella Ferrante, Walter Gerbino and Irvin Rock. Ch. 12. Masking / Charles W. White. Ch. 13. Symmetry Based on Figure Halves / Janet P. Szlyk, Irvin Rock and Celia B. Fisher -- Pt. IV. Motion: Introduction. Ch. 14. The Perception of Movement / Irvin Rock. Ch. 15. Apparent Motion Based on Phenomenal Location / Irvin Rock and Sheldon Ebenholtz. Ch. 16. Apparent Motion Based on Changing Phoria / Hiroshi Ono and Gail Gonda. Ch. 17. Apparent Movement in Tridimensional Space / Fred Attneave and Gene Block. Ch. 18. Motion Aftereffects and Retinal Motion / Arien Mack, James Hill and Steven Kahn. Ch. 19. Speed Constancy and Size Constancy / Irvin Rock, A. Lewis Hill and Mark Fineman -- Pt. V. Illusions: Introduction. Ch. 20. The Muller-Lyer Illusion Reexamined / Romi Nijhawan. Ch. 21. The Conditions for Perceiving Dynamic Occlusion of a Line / Irvin Rock and Alan L. Gilchrist -- Pt. VI. Lightness: Introduction. Ch. 22. Perceived Lightness Depends on Perceived Spatial Arrangement / Alan L. Gilchrist -- Pt. VII. Final Considerations: Introduction. Ch. 23. The Organization of Perceived Space / Walter C. Gogel |
| Summary |
Irvin Rock was a global perceptual theorist in the grand tradition of Helmholtz, Wertheimer, and Gibson. This posthumous volume, the culmination of a long and distinguished career, brings together an original essay by the author with a careful selection of previously published articles (many by or co-authored by Rock) on the theory that perception is an indirect process in which visual experience is derived by inference, rather than being directly and independently determined by retinal stimulation. Rock's reasons for holding that perception is indirect were mainly empirical. Unlike many theorists, he paid close attention to a broad range of experimental evidence in evaluating theoretical claims. His approach, in which theory and experiment go hand in hand, is well represented in this book |
| Notes |
"A Bradford Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online |
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English |
| Subject |
Gestalt psychology.
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Perception.
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Schemas (Psychology)
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| Author |
Rock, Irvin.
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| LC no. |
96026924 |
| ISBN |
0262181770 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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