Indirect perception

This posthumous volume, the culmination of a long and distinguished career, brings together an original essay by the author together with a careful selection of previously published articles (most by Rock) on the theory that perception is an indirect process in which visual experience is derived by...

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Other Authors: Rock, Irvin., EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1997]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 396 pages) : illustrations.
Series: MIT Press/Bradford Books series in cognitive psychology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword /
  • Stephen E. Palmer
  • Foreword: The Legacy of Irvin Rock
  • I.
  • On Direct Perception
  • 1.
  • Concept of Indirect Perception /
  • Irvin Rock
  • 2.
  • Percept-Percept Couplings /
  • William Epstein
  • II.
  • Perceptual Organization
  • 3.
  • Grouping and Proximity /
  • Irvin Rock and Leonard Brosgole
  • 4.
  • Grouping and Lightness /
  • Irvin Rock, Romi Nijhawan, Stephen E. Palmer and Leslie Tudor
  • 5.
  • Grouping and Amodal Completion /
  • Stephen E. Palmer, Jonathan Neff and Diane Beck
  • III.
  • Shape
  • 6.
  • Shape and the Retinal Image /
  • Irvin Rock and Christopher M. Linnett
  • 7.
  • Anorthoscopic Perception /
  • Irvin Rock
  • 8.
  • Induced Form /
  • Irvin Rock and Alan L. Gilchrist
  • 9.
  • Orientation and Form /
  • Irvin Rock
  • 10.
  • Symmetry /
  • Irvin Rock and Robin Leaman
  • 11.
  • Right Angle /
  • Donatella Ferrante, Walter Gerbino and Irvin Rock
  • 12.
  • Masking /
  • Charles W. White
  • 13.
  • Symmetry Based on Figure Halves /
  • Janet P. Szylk, Irvin Rock and Celia B. Fisher
  • IV.
  • Motion
  • 14.
  • Perception of Movement /
  • Irvin Rock
  • 15.
  • Apparent Motion Based on Phenomenal Location /
  • Irvin Rock and Sheldon Ebenholtz
  • 16.
  • Apparent Motion Based on Changing Phoria /
  • Hiroshi Ono and Gail Gonda
  • 17.
  • Apparent Movement in Tridimensional Space /
  • Fred Attneave and Gene Block
  • 18.
  • Motion Aftereffects and Retinal Motion /
  • Arien Mack, James Hill and Steven Kahn
  • 19.
  • Speed Constancy and Size Constancy /
  • Irvin Rock, A. Lewis Hill and Mark Fineman
  • V.
  • Illusions
  • 20.
  • Muller-Lyer Illusion Reexamined /
  • Romi Nijhawan
  • 21.
  • Conditions for Perceiving Dynamic Occlusion of a Line /
  • Irvin Rock and Alan L. Gilchrist
  • VI.
  • Lightness
  • 22.
  • Perceived Lightness Depends on Perceived Spatial Arrangement /
  • Alan L. Gilchrist
  • VII.
  • Final Considerations
  • 23.
  • Organization of Perceived Space /
  • Walter C. Gogel
  • Index.