1
/
of
1
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions
Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions
Regular price
$300.00 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$300.00 USD
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Quantity
Couldn't load pickup availability
Visual illusions cut across academic divides and popular interests: on the one hand, illusions provide entertainment as curious tricks of the eye; on the other hand, scientific research related to illusory phenomena has given generations of scientists and artists deep insights into the brain
and principles of mind and consciousness. Numerous thinkers (including Aristotle, Descartes, Da Vinci, Escher, Goethe, Galileo, Helmholtz, Maxwell, Newton, and Wittgenstein) have been lured by the apparent simplicity of illusions and the promise that illusory phenomena can elucidate the puzzling
relationship between the physical world and our perceptual reality. Over the past thirty years, advances in imaging and electrophysiology has dramatically expanded the range of illusions and enabled new forms of analysis, thereby creating new and exciting ways to consider how the brain constructs
our perceptual world. The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions is a collection of over one hundred chapters about illusions, displayed and discussed by the researchers who invented and conducted research on the illusions. Chapters include full-color images, associated videos, and extensive references. The book is
divided into eleven sections: first, a presentation of general history and viewpoints on illusions, followed by sections on geometric, color, motion, space, faces, and cross-category illusions. The book will be of interest to vision scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, physicists,
philosophers, artists, designers, advertisers, and educators curious about applied aspects of visual perception and the brain.
Author: Arthur G. Shapiro
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/24/2017
Pages: 834
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 5.60lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.60w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780199794607
and principles of mind and consciousness. Numerous thinkers (including Aristotle, Descartes, Da Vinci, Escher, Goethe, Galileo, Helmholtz, Maxwell, Newton, and Wittgenstein) have been lured by the apparent simplicity of illusions and the promise that illusory phenomena can elucidate the puzzling
relationship between the physical world and our perceptual reality. Over the past thirty years, advances in imaging and electrophysiology has dramatically expanded the range of illusions and enabled new forms of analysis, thereby creating new and exciting ways to consider how the brain constructs
our perceptual world. The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions is a collection of over one hundred chapters about illusions, displayed and discussed by the researchers who invented and conducted research on the illusions. Chapters include full-color images, associated videos, and extensive references. The book is
divided into eleven sections: first, a presentation of general history and viewpoints on illusions, followed by sections on geometric, color, motion, space, faces, and cross-category illusions. The book will be of interest to vision scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, physicists,
philosophers, artists, designers, advertisers, and educators curious about applied aspects of visual perception and the brain.
Author: Arthur G. Shapiro
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/24/2017
Pages: 834
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 5.60lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.60w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780199794607
About the Author
Arthur Shapiro, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at American University, Washington, D.C.
Share
