Synopses & Reviews
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 some 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. The first describes color constancy, the second examines size, shape and speed, and the third section is on perceptual inconstancies.
Review
"This interesting...volume updates research on the nature of perceptual constancies and how they arise. ...this important work should become a core reference in this area. ...the primary audience for the book will be graduate students and researchers in experimental psychology. Recommended to libraries serving these readers." Choice"...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
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: what you see is not what you get Vincent Walsh; 1. Visual organization and perceptual constancies in early infancy Alan Slater; 2. The McCollough effect: misperception and reality Keith G. Humphrey; 3. Perception of rotated two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects and visual shapes Pierre Jolicoeur; 4. Computational approaches to shape constancy Shimon Edelman; 5. Learning constancies for object perception Daphna Weinshall; 6. Perceptual constancies in lower vertebrates Peter Foldiak; 7. Generalising across object orientation and size David Ingle; 8. The neuropsychology of visual object constancy Elizabeth Ashbridge; 9. Color constancy and color vision during infancy: methodological and empirical issues David I. Perret; 10. Empirical studies in color constancy Rebecca Lawson; 11. Computational models of colour constancy Glyn W. Humphreys; 12. Comparative aspects of colour constancy James Dannemiller; 13. The physiological substrates of colour constancy Jimmy M. Troost; 14. Size and speed constancy A. C. Hurlbert; 15. Depth and other constancies in 3-D vision Christa Neumeyer; 16. The perception of dynamical constancies Hidehiko Komatsu; 17. Perceptual learning Suzanne P. McKee; 18. The history of size constancy and size illusions Harvey S. Smallman.