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Directory : Visual Image :: Visual Perception

Articles

Chandler, Daniel (1997) 'Individual Differences, Purposes and Needs' [link added 07/08/1997]

Chandler, Daniel (1997) 'Searching for Patterns' [link added 07/08/1997]

Chandler, Daniel (2002) 'The Third Dimension' [link added 07/08/1997]

Chandler, Daniel (1997) 'Gestalt Principles of Visual Organization' [link added 07/08/1997]

Chandler, Daniel (2002) 'Context and Expectations; Selectivity' [link added 07/08/1997]

Chandler, Daniel (1997) 'Cultural and Environmental Factors in Visual Perception' [link added 07/08/1997]

Chandler, Daniel (1995) 'Children's Understanding of What is "Real" on TV' [link added 16/01/1997]

Chandler, Daniel (nd) 'Visual Perception' (Lecture Notes) [link added 27/07/1997]

Chandler, Daniel (1998) 'Notes on "The Gaze"' [link added 07/08/1998]

Cossette, Claude (1983) 'La Science de l'Image' [link added 16/01/1999]

Edwards, Sue (1998) 'Photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are' (Susan Sontag) [link added 26/03/1998]

Freeman, Walter J (1991) 'Physiology of Perception' [link added 16/01/2000]

Greenaway, Jonathan (2004) 'Apparent Movement in Motion Pictures'' [link added 14/05/2004]

Gregory, Richard (nd) 'An Introduction to Seeing' [link added 16/01/2000]

Hagan, Lorraine (2004) 'Interpreting Ambiguous Pictures' [link added 23/06/2004]

Harris, Eleanor (2003) 'What are "Perceptual Constancies" and What Part do they Play in our Perception of the World?' [link added 28/02/2003]

Howard, Peter (2004) 'What are "Perceptual Constancies" and What Part do they Play in our Perception of the World?' [link added 14/05/2004]

Kaiser, : Peter K (2004) 'The Joy of Visual Perception' [link added 12/06/2000]

Keating, Áine (2004) 'Perceptual Constancies and the Role that they play in Our Lives' [link added 01/06/2004]

Krantz, John (2003) 'Vision and Art' [link added 16/01/2002]

Loftus, Elizabeth F. (1996) 'Retaining Information in Memory' [link added 27/07/2004]

Nieminen, Tanja (2004) 'Diversity in the Interpretation of Images' [link added 24/05/2004]

Shikely, Joe (2004) 'Male and Female Interpretations of Ambiguous Images' [link added 18/05/2004]

Woodhouse, Chris (2004) 'Perceptual Constancies' [link added 01/11/2004]

Other Links

Michael Kubovy's Perception Laboratory, University of Virginia

Institute for Perception Research

In what ways do people differ in their perception of the world? To what can such differences be attributed and how would you characterize their limits? (Assignment Reading List)

Bibliography on Visual Perception: Daniel Chandler

What is the evidence that visual perception is an active process of ‘constructing reality’ rather than one of passive assimilation? (Assignment Reading List)

A key feature of our perception of the world is categorization. Illustrate how categorization can be misleading and suggest why we nevertheless depend on it. (Assignment Reading List)

Recommended Reading

Arnheim, Rudolf (1974) : Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye. London: Faber

Bruce, Vicki, Patrick R Green & Mark Georgeson (1996) : Visual Perception. Hove: Psychology Press

Gombrich, Ernst, Julian Hockberg & Max Black (1972) : Art, Perception, and Reality. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Gregory, Richard L (1990) : Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing (4th Edn.). Oxford: Oxford University Press