Seeing Spatial Form [With CDROM]

by Laurence R. Harris

The world is divided into objects: things that are distinct from their backgrounds and that can move or be moved. Objects are food and prey and threats, as well as neutral items, and it is critical to be able to see them. How the form of an object is distinguished is one of the most basic, yet least understood, topics of research in vision perception. The object-defining system needs to operate in the real world, where objects and viewers move, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195172884
• ISBN13: 9780195172881
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"