Looking at Looking : An Introduction to the

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".

Acknowledgments

ix

List or Reviewers

xi

Preface

xiii

Introduction: A Definition

xvii

PART I: OUR ``SPEAKERS''

1

(72)

Stupid Perceptions?

3

(28)

Irvin Rock

Smart Geometry!

31

(20)

John M. Kennedy

Action Potentials to Potential Actions

51

(22)

Richard L. Gregory

PART II: THEIR ``AUDIENCE''

73

(28)

Admirably Adaptive, Occasionally Intelligent

75

(8)

Ulric Neisser

Laurel and Hardy and Me

83

(12)

Ross H. Day

Different Bricks, One Tower

95

(6)

Theodore E. Parks

PART III: THEIR ``FURTHER LOOKS''

101

(18)

A Further Look: Two Stages of Perception

103

(4)

Irvin Rock

A Further Look: Tactics for Detecting Illusions

107

(6)

John M. Kennedy

A Further Look: Inside the Black Box

113

(6)

Richard L. Gregory

References

119

(2)

Index

121

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Looking at Looking : An Introduction to the Intelligence of Vision

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