Why We See What We Do Redux: A Wholly Empirical Theory of Vision

by R. Beau Lotto and Dale Purves

The First Edition of this provocative book reviewed a broad range of evidence leading to the conclusion that the visual system does not reveal the physical world by an analysis of retinal images and their representation by the visual system. Rather, what we see is based on the history of the species and the individual as a means of contending with the inherent uncertainty of light stimuli. It follows that visual perceptions are reflexive manifestations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878935967
• ISBN13: 9780878935963
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Sinauer Associates Is an Imprint of Oxford Un
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.2"