Product Description: Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary series bringing together topics of interest to psychologists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and linguists. Each volume is based on conferences organized at Simon Fraser University, with chapters added from nonparticipants to ensure balanced and adequate coverage from the topic under study...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this wide-ranging collection of essays, all by eminent scholars in the humanities and social sciences, is to explore the phenomenal explosion since World War II of interdisciplinary interest in the visual arts. The authors, who represent a cross-section of anthropologists, social historians, literary and film critics, historians of science, musicologists, and art historians, were part of a conference hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study to commemorate Erwin Panofsky, a former professor at the Institute who did much to inspire this trend...read more

Product Description: A "highly recommended" (Library Journal) contribution to interdisciplinary debate about how cultural differences are implicit within visual forms. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Foremost neurophysiologists and psychophysicists provide pertinent information on the nature of representation at the earliest stages as this will constrain the disposition of all subsequent processing. This processing is discussed in several different types of visual perception...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Sixth European Conference on Eye Movement (ECEM-6), which was organized at the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology of the University of Leuven (September 15-18, 1991) generated the publication of two separate books. The present volume comprises a mixture of contemporary work in various areas of eye-movement research in perception and cognition...read more

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Product Description: How do you paint a picture of infinity? How do you dance about death? How do you draw a diagram explaining entropy? Images and Understanding explores the human problem of moving facts and ideas from one mind to another - the problems of how we see and communicate using images expressed in pictures, diagrams, words, music and dance...read more

Product Description: The proceedings of a workshop held in Amsterdam in August 1984 devoted to the application of quantitative methods of physics and engineering to the study of vision. The papers presented summarize the current position with regard to three research questions: how the visual system segregates an object from the background; how two-dimensional representation encodes three-dimensional information and how visual information is physically encoded in the brain...read more