An Introduction to Perception

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rock, Irvin

Psychology & Counseling

Macmillan

Orientation and form

Academic Press

Arien Mack and Irvin Rock make the radical claim that there is no conscious perception of the visual world without attention to it.Many people believe that merely by opening their eyes, they see everything in their field of view; in fact, a line of psychological research has been taken as evidence of the existence of so-called preattentional perception. In Inattentional Blindness, Arien Mack and Irvin Rock make the radical claim that there is no such thing -- that there is no conscious perception of the visual world without attention to it.The authors present a narrative chronicle of their research. Thus, the reader follows the trail that led to the final conclusions, learning why initial hypotheses and explanations were discarded or revised, and how new questions arose along the way. The phenomenon of inattentional blindness has theoretical importance for cognitive psychologists studying perception, attention, and consciousness, as well as for philosophers and neuroscientists interested in the problem of consciousness.

Inattentional Blindness (Cognitive Psychology)

MACK, ARIEN

Mental Health

Bradford Books

The theory of visual perception that Irvin Rock develops and supports in this book with numerous original experiments, views perception as the outcome of a process of unconscious inference, problem solving, and the building of structural descriptions of the external world.

The logic of perception

MIT Press]

Indirect Perception (Cognitive Psychology)

Irvin Rock was a global perceptual theorist in the grand tradition of von Helmoltz, Wertheimer, and Gibson. 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 inference, rather than being directly and independently determined by retinal stimulation.Rock's reasons for holding that perception is indirect were mainly empirical. Unlike many theorists, he paid close attention to a broad range of experimental evidence in evaluating theoretical claims. His approach, in which theory and experiment go hand in hand, is well represented in this book.In the first chapter, which is new, Rock lays out the theoretical issues underlying indirect perception. The remaining twenty-two chapters present detailed evidence in support of the indirect view. They are divided into sections covering indirect perception, organization, shape, motion, illusions, lightness, and final considerations. Each section is introduced by the author. Stephen Palmer's introduction to the book places Rock's work within the context of the history of perceptual theory -- approaches formulated by Helmholtz (inferential), by the Gestaltist psychologists (organizational), and by Gibson (ecological). Cognitive Psychology series

Indirect Perception (Cognitive Psychology) (Cognitive Psychology Series)

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 inference, rather than being directly and independently determined by retinal stimulation.

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Words, Language & Grammar

Arien Mack and Irvin Rock make the radical claim that there is no conscious perception of the visual world without attention to it.

Inattentional Blindness

The theory of visual perception that Irvin Rock develops and supports in this book with numerous original experiments, views perception as the outcome of a process of unconscious inference, problem solving, and the building of structural descriptions of the external world. It is a radical departure from his earlier work and contrasts with traditional perceptual theories like those of James J. Gibson or the Gestalt view. Rock experiments with a series of phenomena, like motion perception, illusory contours, and size and brightness constancy, and shows that they can be understood in terms of the knowledge applied by the visual system to the interpretation of the retinal image. His work largely complements that being done in artificial intelligence, demonstrating that the visual system is far more subtle and intelligent in many tasks which have not yet been modelled on the computer. Irvin Rock, a noted investigator of perceptual phenomena for nearly three decades, is Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University.

The Logic of Perception

Discusses human sight, depth, size and pattern perception, optical illusions, and perspective, and explains how the brain interprets visual information

Perception (Scientific American Library Series)

Scientific American Books - W. H. Freeman & Co.

In this abundantly illustrated book, the noted psychologist Irvin Rock explores our perception of objects in the world, in art, and in visual illusions. With ingenious experiments devised by himself and other investigators, he explains the amazing riddle of perception: how we manage to turn the ambiguous, everchanging, two-dimensional images that fall on the eye into the rich, constant, three-dimensional world as we see it.

Perception

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

W.H.Freeman & Co.

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