Overview
- Articulates a central tension between perception and cognition in the depth perception literature
- Resists the claim that depth perception is a product of Bayesian Cue Integration
- Suggests that pictorial cues and many perceptual illusions are in fact purely cognitive
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book explores a central question in the study of depth perception - 'does the visual system rely upon objective knowledge and subjective meaning to specify visual depth?' Linton advances an alternative interpretation to the generally accepted affirmative answer, according to which many of the apparent contributions of knowledge and meaning to depth perception are better understood as contributions to our post-perceptual cognition of depth. In order to defend this position a new account of visual cognition is required, as well as a better understanding of the optical and physiological cues to depth.
This book will appeal to students and researchers in psychology, vision science, and philosophy, as well as technologists and content creators working in virtual and augmented reality.
This book will appeal to students and researchers in psychology, vision science, and philosophy, as well as technologists and content creators working in virtual and augmented reality.
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About the author
Paul Linton has taught philosophy at Oxford University and University College London, and is currently engaged in research on the optical, physiological, and cognitive cues to depth perception at the Centre for Applied Vision Research, City, University of London.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Perception and Cognition of Visual Space
Authors: Paul Linton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66293-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66292-3Published: 11 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88212-3Published: 15 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66293-0Published: 28 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 162
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, Classical Electrodynamics, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Philosophy of Mind