Perceptual Constancy: Why Things Look as They DoVincent Walsh, Janusz Kulikowski Perceptual Constancy examines a group of long-standing problems in the field of perception and provides a review of the fundamentals of the problems and their solutions. Experts in several different fields--including computational vision, physiology, neuropsychology, psychophysics and comparative psychology--present their approaches to some of the fundamental problems of perception: How does the brain extract a stable world from an ever changing retinal input? How do we achieve color constancy despite changes in the wavelength content of daylight? How do we recognize objects from different viewpoints? And how do we know the sizes of those objects? The volume is divided into three sections. The first describes color constancy, the second examines size, shape and speed, and the third section is on perceptual inconstancies. |
Contents
Contributors page | 1 |
Misperception and reality | 31 |
Perception of rotated twodimensional and three | 69 |
Computational approaches to shape constancy | 124 |
Learning constancies for object perception | 144 |
Perceptual constancies in lower vertebrates | 173 |
Generalizing across object orientation and size | 192 |
The neuropsychology of visual object constancy | 210 |
Comparative aspects of color constancy | 323 |
The physiological substrates of color constancy | 352 |
Size and speed constancy | 373 |
Depth constancy | 409 |
The perception of dynamical constancies | 436 |
Perceptual learning | 455 |
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The history of size constancy and size illusions | 499 |
Empirical studies in color constancy | 262 |
Computational models of color constancy | 283 |
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Perceptual Constancy: Why Things Look as They Do Vincent Walsh,Janusz Kulikowski No preview available - 2010 |
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Seeing, Doing, and Knowing: A Philosophical Theory of Sense Perception Mohan Matthen No preview available - 2007 |