Seeing Through Illusions

by Richard Langton Gregory

In Seeing Through Illusions , renowned scientist Richard Gregory explores what visual illusions can tell us about how our brains perceive the world. Looking at optical tricks and many other extraordinary phenomena, Gregory explains how scientists use these anomalies to peel back the normal processes of perception, and to reveal how the brain performs the remarkable feat of representing the real world with the kind of richness and accuracy which we...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192802852
• ISBN13: 9780192802859
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.6" x 5.5"