Perceptual Constancy
Why Things Look as They Do

An account of how the visual world is reconstructed to give us the rich impressions of color, movement, and shape.

Vincent Walsh (Edited by), Janusz Kulikowski (Edited by)

9780521460613, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 August 1998

560 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.5 cm, 0.99 kg

"...this volume should be a valuable resource for both graduate students and researchers in visual perception. The book consists of 18 chapters that examine perceptual constancy from a variety of viewpoints. Developmental, comparative, psychophysical, psychological, and computational perspectives are represented in this collection." Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Perceptual Constancy examines a group of long-standing problems in the field of perception and provides a review of the fundamentals of the problems and their solutions. Experts in several different fields - including computational vision, physiology, neuropsychology, psychophysics and comparative psychology - present their approaches to one of the fundamental problems of perception: how does the brain extract a stable world from an ever-changing retinal input? How do we achieve color constancy despite changes in the wavelength content of daylight? How do we recognize objects from different viewpoints? And how do we know the sizes of those objects? The volume is divided into three sections, each of which addresses developmental, clinical and comparative issues, psychophysics, and physiology.

Contributors
Introduction: what you see is not what you get Vincent Walsh and Janusz Kulikowski
1. Visual organization and perceptual constancies in early infancy Alan Slater
2. The McCollough effect: misperception and reality G. Keith Humphrey
3. Perception of rotated two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects and visual shapes Pierre Jolicoeur and G. Keith Humphrey
4. Computational approaches to shape constancy Shimon Edelman and Daphna Weinshall
5. Learning constancies for object perception Peter Földiák
6. Perceptual constancies in lower vertebrates David Ingle
7. Generalizing across object orientation and size Elizabeth Ashbridge and David I. Perret
8. The neuropsychology of visual object constancy Rebecca Lawson and Glyn W. Humphreys
9. Color constancy and color vision during infancy: methodological and empirical issues James L. Dannemiller
10. Empirical studies in color constancy Jimmy M. Troost
11. Computational models of color constancy A. C. Hurlbert
12. Comparative aspects of color constancy Christa Neumeyer
13. The physiological substrates of color constancy Hidehiko Komatsu
14. Size and speed constancy Suzanne P. McKee and Harvey S. Smallman
15. Depth constancies Thomas S. Collett and Andrew J. Parker
16. The perception of dynamical constancies Mary K. Kaiser
17. Perceptual learning Merav Ahissar and Shaul Hochstein
18. The history of size constancy and size illusions Helen E. Ross and Cornelius Plug
Author index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Perception [JMRP]