Illusions of seeing : exploring the world of visual perception / / Thomas Ditzinger

• Autore: Ditzinger Thomas
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 pages)
• Disciplina: 612.8
• Soggetto topico: Neuropsychology; Percepció visual; Visualització; Il·lusions òptiques; Imatge (Psicologia)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: First Journey: Light, Perception, and the Laws of Seeing -- 1.1 Human Perception -- 1.2 Light and Vision -- 1.3 The Senses Strive for Order -- 1.3.1 A Puzzle Animal -- 1.3.2 Gestalt Psychology -- 1.4 The Sheep and the Laws of Sight -- 1.4.1 The Law of Conciseness -- 1.4.2 The Law of Similarity -- 1.4.3 The Law of Proximity -- 1.4.4 The Law of Good Continuation -- 1.4.5 The Law of Unity -- 1.4.6 The Law of Experience -- Chapter 2: Second Journey: The Geometrical-Optical Illusions -- 2.1 Errors of the Senses -- 2.2 The Müller-Lyer Deception, Part 1 -- 2.3 The Constancy of Size: An Important Basis for Perception -- 2.4 The Müller-Lyer Deception, Part 2 -- 2.5 The Poggendorff Deception -- 2.6 The Sander Deception -- 2.7 Hering's Deception -- 2.8 The Zöllner Deception -- 2.9 The Tilting Aftereffect -- 2.10 The Fraser Deception -- 2.11 The Vertical Deception -- 2.12 T-Shirts, Cross- and Longitudinal-Striped -- 2.13 The Oppel-Kundt Deception -- 2.14 The Moon Deception -- 2.15 The Titchener Deception -- 2.16 The Ebbinghaus Deception -- 2.17 The Jastrow Size Illusion -- 2.18 The Trick with the Trays -- 2.19 The Sunset -- Chapter 3: Third Journey: Perception of Forms and Brightness -- 3.1 Reflected Light -- 3.2 The Dream of the Bus Driver -- 3.2.1 Symmetry -- 3.2.2 Proximity Against Symmetry -- 3.2.3 Closedness Against Symmetry -- 3.3 The Motorway Bridge and the Asphalt Figures -- 3.3.1 A Block Diagram -- 3.3.2 Simple Brightness Illusions -- 3.3.3 More Complicated Brightness Illusions -- 3.3.4 The Mach Bands -- 3.3.5 The Craik-Cornsweet-O'Brien Deception -- 3.3.6 The Hermann Grid -- 3.3.7 The Irradiation -- 3.3.8 Bright and Dark Suns -- 3.3.9 The Kanizsa-Triangle -- 3.4 The Inn in the Forest -- 3.4.1 The Tables -- 3.4.2 The Wertheimer-Benary Figure -- 3.4.3 The Perception of Transparency. ; 3.4.4 White-Deception: Overlapping and Simultaneous Contrast -- Chapter 4: Fourth Journey: Ambiguous Perception -- 4.1 How Did You Find Freiburg? -- 4.2 The Rubin-Cup -- 4.3 The Necker Cube -- 4.4 Ambivalence of Perspective -- 4.5 Ambivalent Images in the Laboratory of Perceptual Psychology -- 4.5.1 Measurement Method -- 4.5.2 The Oscillation Speed as a "Fingerprint of the Psyche" -- 4.5.3 Pictures with Different Weighting of the Alternatives -- 4.6 Young Man or Father-in-Law? -- 4.7 Young Girl or Mother-in-Law? -- 4.8 How Does Our Brain Make Decisions? -- 4.9 Synergetics -- 4.10 The Prejudice -- 4.11 Reverse Images -- 4.12 Morphing -- 4.13 Hysteresis in Perception -- 4.14 The Fantastic Art Gallery -- Chapter 5: Fifth Journey: The Colors and the Grey Everyday Life -- 5.1 At Night All Cats Are Grey -- 5.1.1 The Purkinje Effect -- 5.1.2 Day- and Night-Vision -- 5.1.3 The Colorful Dog -- 5.1.4 Disappearing Stars -- 5.1.5 The Brightness of Stars -- 5.1.6 Electromagnetic Radiation -- 5.1.7 The Visible Light -- 5.2 Color Vision -- 5.2.1 The Rainbow -- 5.2.1.1 How are the Colors of the Rainbow Created? -- 5.2.2 A Connection Between Logic and Emotion -- 5.2.3 The Three-Color Theory of Seeing -- 5.2.4 Rods and Cones -- 5.2.5 How Does Color Vision Work? -- 5.3 The Butterfly Meadow -- 5.3.1 The Equipment -- 5.3.2 The Butterflies, Einstein, the Light, and the Colors -- 5.3.3 The Color Black -- 5.3.4 The Color Red -- 5.3.5 The Color Yellow -- 5.3.6 The Color Magenta -- 5.3.7 The Color White -- 5.3.8 The Complementary Color to Red -- 5.4 A Round Trip Through Color Vision -- 5.4.1 Color Adaptation -- 5.4.2 Disorders of Color Vision -- 5.4.3 The Fantastic Color World of the Honey Bee -- 5.4.4 The Negative Afterimage -- 5.4.5 Rotating Discs -- 5.4.6 The Phenomenon of Fluttering Hearts -- 5.4.7 Blue is a Very Special Color -- 5.5 By the Sea. ; 5.5.1 Why Is the Sky Blue? -- 5.5.2 The Color Contrast Enhancement -- 5.5.3 Hering's Anti-Color Theory -- 5.5.4 The Watercolor Effect -- Chapter 6: The Sixth Journey: Spatial Vision -- 6.1 Before Departure -- 6.1.1 Why Do People Have Two Eyes? -- 6.1.2 The Eyes -- 6.1.3 Coupled and Decoupled Eyes -- 6.1.4 Three-Dimensional Environmental Impressions -- 6.1.5 Depth Determination Through Convergence -- 6.1.6 Depth Determination by Transverse Disparity -- 6.2 The Index Finger Path -- 6.2.1 A Vertical Index Finger -- 6.2.2 Two Vertical Index Fingers -- 6.2.3 Two Horizontal Index Fingers -- 6.2.4 Depth Resolution due to Transverse Disparity -- 6.3 The Random Dot Images -- 6.3.1 The Trick with the Stereo View -- 6.3.2 The Creation of Random Dot Stereograms -- 6.3.3 Fantastic Experiments with Spatial Perception -- 6.3.4 Noisy Images -- 6.3.5 Where's the Mistake? -- 6.3.6 The Rivalry of Structures -- 6.3.7 The Rivalry of Colors -- 6.4 On the Main Road -- 6.4.1 Stereoscopic Photography -- 6.4.2 The Hollow Mask -- 6.4.3 Recognizing Depth with One Eye -- 6.5 Other Methods of Depth Perception -- 6.5.1 The Perception of Depth Through Movement -- 6.5.2 Depth Perception Through Detection of Overlaps -- 6.5.3 Depth Perception Through the Recognition of Transparency -- 6.5.4 Depth Perception Through Size Comparison -- 6.5.5 Depth Perception Through the Interpretation of Shadow Casting -- 6.5.6 Depth Perception Through Brightness Contrast Detection -- 6.5.7 An Unrealized Method for Depth Perception -- 6.6 Why Do People Have Two Eyes? -- 6.7 In Venice Beach -- 6.8 A Time Travel Through the Technique of Stereo Vision -- 6.8.1 The Mirror Stereoscope -- 6.8.2 The Lens Stereoscope -- 6.8.3 Visual Techniques With and Without Stereoscope -- 6.8.4 The Wallpaper Effect -- 6.8.5 The Red-Green Anaglyph Technique -- 6.8.6 The Polarization Filter Technology. ; 6.8.7 The Pulfrich Effect -- 6.8.8 The Shutter Glasses -- 6.8.9 The Random-Dot Stereograms -- 6.8.10 The Autostereograms -- 6.8.11 Summary -- 6.9 New Wonder Worlds of Perception -- 6.9.1 Multiple Worlds and Ghost Images -- 6.9.2 An Eye Test to Determine the Depth of Convergence -- 6.9.3 The Brain Forms its Own Three-Dimensional World -- 6.9.4 The Pulling Effect: Our Brain Is Lazy, But Not Too Lazy! -- 6.9.5 An Eye Test to Determine the Capacity of Depth Perception -- 6.9.6 3D for the Advanced -- Chapter 7: Seventh Journey: Movements are Life -- 7.1 Motion Detection -- 7.2 Relative Movements at the Station -- 7.3 Illusory Movements, Movies and the Wobbly Pencils -- 7.4 Aftereffects, Waterfalls and Trains Again -- 7.5 The Autokinetic Effect and Star Movements -- 7.6 Motion Illusions with Periodic Patterns -- 7.7 Illusions of Movement with Colors -- 7.7.1 The Leaning Tower of Pisa is Being Straightened -- 7.7.2 The Law of Common Destiny of Motion -- 7.8 Illusions of Movement Through Spatial Interaction -- 7.9 A New Fascination: The Modern Illusions of Movement Under the Influence of Color, Depth, Form, and Brightness -- 7.9.1 The Ouchi Illusion -- 7.9.2 Pinna-Brelstaff Illusion -- 7.9.3 Rotating Snakes -- 7.9.4 Whirling Rings -- 7.9.5 Heat Flicker -- Chapter 8: Eighth Journey: Everyday Life Isn't Grey At All-Illusions in Our Daily Lives -- 8.1 In the Supermarket -- 8.2 Save Time -- 8.3 At the Dentist -- 8.3.1 Room Colors -- 8.3.2 Tooth Colors -- 8.4 In the Stadium -- 8.4.1 The Round Must Go into the Square -- 8.4.2 Cam Carpets: The Camera Carpets -- 8.5 Spatial Misinterpretations During Vacations Time: In San Francisco and Skiing -- 8.6 Sun, Light, and Shadow -- 8.7 Optical Illusions in the Fashion Industry -- 8.8 The Perspective of Double Images -- 8.9 Hiding and Camouflage -- Closing Words -- Picture Credits -- References. ; First Journey: Light, Perception and the Laws of Seeing -- Second Journey: The Geometric-Optical Illusions -- Third Journey: Perception of Forms and Brightness -- Fourth Journey: Ambiguous Perceptions -- Fifth Journey: The Colors and the Grey Everyday Life -- Sixth Journey: Spatial Vision -- Seventh Journey: Movements Are Life -- Eighth Journey: Everyday Life Is Not Grey At All: Deceptions in Our Daily Life -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Illusions of Seeing
• ISBN: 3-030-63635-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910485594303321
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