The Mechanisms of Perception
, by Piaget,Jean
- ISBN: 9780415402286 | 041540228X
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/4/2007
| Author's Preface | p. xiii |
| Translator's Preface | p. xv |
| Foreword | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. xix |
| Primary Effects | |
| Primary Illusions and the Law of Relative Centrations | p. 3 |
| The status of the problem | p. 3 |
| The general form of the law of relative centrations | p. 6 |
| Illusions of rectangles | p. 8 |
| The T figure (also known as the 'horizontal-vertical illusion') | p. 12 |
| Illusions of angles | p. 14 |
| Illusions of lozenges | p. 24 |
| Over- and under-estimations of curvature | p. 26 |
| Illusions of parallelograms | p. 30 |
| Over-estimations of the short side and under-estimations of the long side of trapezia | p. 38 |
| The Muller-Lyer illusion | p. 44 |
| Two forms of the Delboeuf illusion | p. 49 |
| A line of constant length inserted between two variable lengths and a line of constant length extended by a variable length | p. 57 |
| The Oppel-Kundt illusion of divided spaces | p. 62 |
| Conclusions | p. 67 |
| Effects of Centration | p. 69 |
| Effects of centration | p. 70 |
| The probability model of encounters and of couplings | p. 83 |
| Centration and the accentuation of dimensional inequalities | p. 93 |
| An explanation of the law of relative centrations in terms of the model of encounters and of couplings | p. 103 |
| An interpretation of the threshold for equality and the relation of Weber's law to that of relative centrations | p. 109 |
| Experimental support for the model of encounters and the phenomenon of the temporal maximum of illusions | p. 116 |
| Perceptual Activities | |
| Perceptual Activities and Secondary Illusions | p. 137 |
| Exploratory activity, syncretism of childish perception and the increase with age of the Oppel-Kundt illusion | p. 137 |
| Compensatory effects of exploration and effects of practice or of repetition | p. 145 |
| Polarised explorations, the over-estimation of verticals and of elements situated in the upper half of the field | p. 152 |
| Activities of referral: effects of frames of reference and the establishment of perceptual co-ordinates | p. 163 |
| Spatial transports and dimensional transpositions | p. 176 |
| Temporal transports and so-called absolute impressions | p. 182 |
| Perceptual anticipations | p. 186 |
| Deforming and compensatory schematisations | p. 189 |
| Conclusions: perceptual activities and field effects | p. 198 |
| Perceptual Constancies and Causality | p. 206 |
| The evolution of size constancy with age studied by the method of paired comparisons | p. 208 |
| The evolution of size constancy with serially ordered objects | p. 212 |
| Objective constancy and projective size | p. 217 |
| Size constancy and estimations of distance | p. 222 |
| Size constancy: conclusions | p. 226 |
| Visual and tactilo-kinesthetic perceptual causality | p. 234 |
| Perceptions of Movement, of Velocity and of Time | p. 244 |
| The perception of moving bodies: squares in circumduction (the Auersperg and Buhrmester effect) | p. 244 |
| Stroboscopic movement | p. 252 |
| The perception of velocity | p. 262 |
| The perception of time | p. 272 |
| Structures of Perception and of Intelligence | |
| Differences, Similarities and Possible Filiations Between the Structures of Perception and Those of Intelligence | p. 283 |
| Fundamental differences between perception and intelligence | p. 284 |
| Similarities (partial isomorphisms) and intermediate states between primary perceptual and operational structures | p. 293 |
| The Perceptual or Non-perceptual Origins of the Structures of Intelligence | |
| Situation I: the divergent evolution of notions and of corresponding perceptions | p. 312 |
| Situation II: reciprocal action between perceptual and sensory-motor schemes | p. 318 |
| Situation III: the prefiguration of notions by perceptual activities | p. 325 |
| Situation IV: prefiguration with repercussions of intelligence onto perceptual structures | p. 333 |
| Perception and notions | p. 350 |
| Conclusion: the Epistemology of Perception | p. 356 |
| Figurative and operative aspects of knowledge | p. 356 |
| Empiricism, apriorism and interaction between the subject and the object | p. 361 |
| Appendix | p. 367 |
| List of Recherches | p. 370 |
| Index | p. 373 |
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