Visual Perception: An Introduction
- ISBN-10
- 1841692034
- ISBN-13
- 9781841692036
- Series
- Visual Perception
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 292
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Authors
- Nicholas Wade, Michael Swanston, Professor of Visual Psychology Nicholas J Wade
Description
This work covers the perception of location, motion and object recognition, and places the study of vision in its historical context. The machinery of vision is also described.
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