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Perception and Illusion - Historical Perspectives
of: N.J. Wade
Springer-Verlag, 2006
ISBN: 9780387227238 , 250 Pages
Format: PDF, Read online
Copy protection: DRM
Preface
7
Contents
10
Recording Observations
14
THE PRACTICE OF PERCEPTION
17
Art
18
Color
24
Optics
27
GREEK SCIENCE AND PERCEPTION
28
The Ideal and the Observable
29
The Five Senses
30
The Introduction of Observation
33
The Introduction of Optics
35
The Introduction of Experiment
36
SUMMARY
38
Nature of Perceptual Error
41
COMPARISONS OF PERCEPTS
43
COMPARISONS WITH PHYSICS
44
COMPARISONS WITH PHYSIOLOGY
45
DISTAL AND PROXIMAL COMPARISONS
49
PHANTOMS
52
SUMMARY
60
Nature of Veridicality
61
NATURE OF LIGHT
62
Greek Optics
63
Medieval Optics
69
Early Modern Optics
70
NATURE OF SIGHT
72
Eye
74
Retina
78
Visual Pathways
79
Eye Glasses
80
SUMMARY
82
Perception in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
84
IMPACT OF OPTICS
85
IMPACT OF ANATOMY
89
IMPACT OF PHYSIOLOGY
93
Accommodation
93
Optical Instruments
95
Accommodation and Age
97
SEPARATION OF THE SENSES
98
Muscle and Temperature Senses
99
Movement Sense
100
VERTIGO
103
EMERGENT PHILOSOPHIES
107
EMERGENT EMPIRICAL METHODS
113
Binocular Color Combination
114
Size Perception
115
Color
116
SUMMARY
117
The Instrumental Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
120
STIMULUS CONTROL THE IMPACT OF PHYSICS
121
Motion
123
Depth
127
Time
129
ANATOMY
131
Structure of the Retina
133
Pathways to the Brain
136
SPATIAL ILLUSIONS
137
Illusions and the Origins of Experimental Psychology
138
Motion Aftereffects
139
SUMMARY
142
The Response Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
144
PHENOMENOLOGY
145
PSYCHOPHYSICS
147
REACTION TIME
151
SENSORY-MOTOR INTERACTIONS
154
EYE MOVEMENTS
156
Nystagmus
157
Saccades
159
Fixations
162
Reading
163
SUMMARY
166
The Fragmentation of the Senses in the Nineteenth Century
169
METHODS OF STIMULATING THE SENSES
170
SPECIFYING THE SENSES
171
Muscle Sense
172
Temperature Sense
175
Movement Sense
177
Specific Nerve Energies
181
SUBJECTIVE PHENOMENA
183
OBJECTIVE CORRELATES
187
SUMMARY
190
The Twentieth Century—The Multiplication of Illusion
192
THE DEVELOPMENTAL DIMENSION
193
Infant Vision
194
Visual Development
195
THE NEW PHYSIOLOGY
196
Feature Detectors
197
Two Visual Pathways
198
THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION
199
THE MACHINE METAPHOR
200
THE NEW IMAGE
203
THE NEW VERIDICALITY
205
ILLUSIONS AND VERIDICALITY
206
SUMMARY
207
Conclusions
209
References
213
Name Index
234
Subject Index
240
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