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Title

Indirect perception / edited by Irvin Rock ; with a foreword by Stephen E. Palmer.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Rock, Irvin.

Description

xxviii, 396 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• Irvin Rock was a global perceptual theorist in the grand tradition of Helmholtz, Wertheimer, and Gibson. This posthumous volume, the culmination of a long and distinguished career, brings together an original essay by the author with a careful selection of previously published articles (many by or co-authored 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.

Series Statement

MIT Press/Bradford Books series in cognitive psychology

Uniform Title

MIT Press/Bradford Books series in cognitive psychology.

Subjects

• Schemas (Psychology)
• Gestalt psychology
• Perception

Note

• "A Bradford Book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword: The Legacy of Irvin Rock / Stephen E. Palmer -- Pt. I. On Indirect Perception: Introduction. Ch. 1. The Concept of Indirect Perception / Irvin Rock. Ch. 2. Percept-Percept Couplings / William Epstein -- Pt. II. Perceptual Organization: Introduction. Ch. 3. Grouping and Proximity / Irvin Rock and Leonard Brosgole. Ch. 4. Grouping and Lightness / Irvin Rock, Romi Nijhawan and Stephen E. Palmer [et al.]. Ch. 5. Grouping and Amodal Completion / Stephen E. Palmer, Jonathan Neff and Diane Beck -- Pt. III. Shape: Introduction. Ch. 6. Shape and the Retinal Image / Irvin Rock and Christopher M. Linnett. Ch. 7. Anorthoscopic Perception / Irvin Rock. Ch. 8. Induced Form / Irvin Rock and Alan L. Gilchrist. Ch. 9. Orientation and Form / Irvin Rock. Ch. 10. Symmetry / Irvin Rock and Robin Leaman. Ch. 11. The Right Angle / Donatella Ferrante, Walter Gerbino and Irvin Rock. Ch. 12. Masking / Charles W. White.
• Ch. 13. Symmetry Based on Figure Halves / Janet P. Szlyk, Irvin Rock and Celia B. Fisher -- Pt. IV. Motion: Introduction. Ch. 14. The Perception of Movement / Irvin Rock. Ch. 15. Apparent Motion Based on Phenomenal Location / Irvin Rock and Sheldon Ebenholtz. Ch. 16. Apparent Motion Based on Changing Phoria / Hiroshi Ono and Gail Gonda. Ch. 17. Apparent Movement in Tridimensional Space / Fred Attneave and Gene Block. Ch. 18. Motion Aftereffects and Retinal Motion / Arien Mack, James Hill and Steven Kahn. Ch. 19. Speed Constancy and Size Constancy / Irvin Rock, A. Lewis Hill and Mark Fineman -- Pt. V. Illusions: Introduction. Ch. 20. The Muller-Lyer Illusion Reexamined / Romi Nijhawan. Ch. 21. The Conditions for Perceiving Dynamic Occlusion of a Line / Irvin Rock and Alan L. Gilchrist -- Pt. VI. Lightness: Introduction. Ch. 22. Perceived Lightness Depends on Perceived Spatial Arrangement / Alan L. Gilchrist -- Pt. VII. Final Considerations: Introduction.
• Ch. 23. The Organization of Perceived Space / Walter C. Gogel.

ISBN

0262181770 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

96026924

OCLC

ocm35016890

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries