Overview
- Editors:
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William R. Hendee
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Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
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Peter N. T. Wells
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Bristol General Hospital, Bristol, UK
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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- Peter F. Sharp, Russell Philips
Pages 1-29
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- Arthur P. Ginsburg, William R. Hendee
Pages 52-72
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- Bart M. Ter Haar Romeny, Luc Florack
Pages 73-114
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- Kevin S. Berbaum, Mark Madsen, Donald D. Dorfman
Pages 230-271
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- Henry A. Swett, Maryellen L. Giger, Kunio Doi
Pages 272-315
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About this book
Human knowledge is primarily the product of experiences acquired through interactions of our senses with our surroundings. Of all the senses, vision is the one relied on most heavily by most people for sensory input about the environment. Visual interactions can be divided into three processes: (1) de tection of visual information; (2) recognition of the "external source" of the information; and (3) interpretation of the significance of the information. These processes usually occur sequentially, although there is considerable interdependence among them. With our strong dependence on the processes of visual interactions, we might assume that they are well characterized and understood. Nothing could be further from the truth. Human vision remains an engima, in spite of specu lations by philosophers for centuries, and, more recently, of attention from physicists and cognitive and experimental psychologists. How we see, and how we know what we see, remains an unsolved mystery that challenges some of the most creative scientists and cognitive specialists.
Editors and Affiliations
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Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
William R. Hendee
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Bristol General Hospital, Bristol, UK
Peter N. T. Wells
