Visual intelligence : how we create what we see / Donald D. Hoffman.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 294 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0393046699
- 9780393046694
- 152.14 21
- BF241 .H56 1998
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 152.14 HOF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A517296B |
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152.14 ELK The object stares back : on the nature of seeing / | 152.14 GIB The ecological approach to visual perception / | 152.14 GRE Mirrors in mind / | 152.14 HOF Visual intelligence : how we create what we see / | 152.14 JAM Visual communication : more than meets the eye / | 152.14 PAT Seeing things : deepening relations with visual artefacts / | 152.14 PYL Things and places : how the mind connects with the world / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-276) and index.
"In an informal style replete with illustrations, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman presents the compelling scientific evidence for vision's constructive powers, and in so doing he unveils a grammar of vision - a set of rules that govern our perception of line, color, form, depth, and motion. Hoffman also describes the loss of these constructive powers in patients who have suffered devastating impairments: the artist who can no longer see or dream in color; the woman who, having lost her perception of motion, can no longer cross the street. Finally, Hoffman explores the spinoff of visual intelligence in the arts and technology from the dynamics of film special effects to the visual worlds of virtual reality."--BOOK JACKET.
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