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Virtually every graduate program in psychology has a specific course on vision and visual perception
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During the last few centuries, natural philosophers, and more recently vision scientists, have recognized that a fundamental problem in biological vision is that the sources underlying visual stimuli are unknowable in any direct sense, because of the inherent ambiguity of the stimuli that impinge on sensory receptors. The light that reaches the eye from any scene conflates the contributions of reflectance, illumination, transmittance, and subsidiary factors that affect these primary physical parameters. Spatial properties such as the size, distance and orientation of physical objects are also conflated in light stimuli. As a result, the provenance of light reaching the eye at any moment is uncertain. This quandary is referred to as the inverse optics problem. This book considers the evidence that the human visual system solves this problem by incorporating past human experience of what retinal images have typically corresponded to in the real world.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perceiving Geometry
Book Subtitle: Geometrical Illusions Explained by Natural Scene Statistics
Authors: Catherine Q. Howe, Dale Purves
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b135453
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-25487-6Published: 16 August 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3800-8Published: 08 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-25488-3Published: 18 November 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 126
Number of Illustrations: 43 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Neurobiology, Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, Ophthalmology