Bibliograph

Seeing is deceiving, the psychology of visual illusions, Stanley Coren, Joan Stern Girgus

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Seeing is deceiving, the psychology of visual illusions, Stanley Coren, Joan Stern Girgus

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-244) and indexes

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Seeing is deceiving

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

4136303

Responsibility statement

Stanley Coren, Joan Stern Girgus

Sub title

the psychology of visual illusions

Table Of Contents

A brief history of visual illusions -- Size illusions -- Direction, location, and shape illusions -- Structural factors in illusion formation: optical contributions -- Structural factors in illusion formation: retinal components -- Structural factors in illusion formation: central neural mechanisms -- Illusions and picture processing strategies -- Global impression and averaging strategies -- Contrast and difference extraction strategies -- Composite strategies, perceptual fields, and quantitative theories -- Information sampling in illusion formation and destruction -- The psychoanatomy of visual illusions -- Toward a taxonomy of visual illusions -- Illusions: implications and extrapolations

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