Looking at Looking: An Introduction to the Intelligence of Vision / Edition 1

by Theodore E. Parks

Overview

This volume brings together a selection of the most influential current thinkers in the area of visual perception. We are often confused by our visual systems, for example size distortions, but there is an underlying "intelligence" to our visual system, even in the face of what would seem to be short-circuits within our sensory processing. This book explores varying views of this "intelligence ".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761922049
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/06/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	721,777
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Dr. Parks is primarily interested in visual perception from a "militantly eclectic" point of view, but with a special interest in innate "intelligent" processes as they occur in various aspects of perception. His research for the past several years has primarily revolved around illusions including standard geometric examples, but most often illusory contours. He has secondary interests in iconic storage aperture viewing (the so called "Parks-Effect ") and non-traditional instances of human memory phenomena (especially memory illusions).

Table of Contents

PART ONE: OUR ‘SPEAKERS'
Stupid Perceptions? - Irvin Rock
Smart Geometry! - John M Kennedy
Action Potentials to Potential Actions - Richard L Gregory
PART TWO: THEIR ‘AUDIENCE'
Admirably Adaptive, Occasionally Intelligent - Ulric Neisser
Laurel and Hardy and Me - Ross H Day
Different Bricks, One Tower - Theodore E Parks
PART THREE: SOME ‘FURTHER LOOKS'
A Further Look - Irvin Rock
Two Stages of Perception
A Further Look - John M Kennedy
Tactics for Detecting Illusions
A Further Look - Richard L Gregory
Inside the Black Box