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Blindspots
Bruno G. Breitmeyer
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Description for Blindspots
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 40 b/w halftones, 45 line illus. BIC Classification: JMM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 592.
Sight can be so effortless, so useful, and so entertaining--the average human can distinguish several million colors; a falcon can see a fencepost from three thousand yards--that we never stop to think about how complex a process it is and how easily it can fail us. We never have as clear and complete a picture of the world around us as we think we do. The gaps between what our eyes take in and what is in our mind's eye provide the unifying theme in Bruno Breitmeyer's wide-ranging volume. In his fascinating account of the many ways that our eyes, ... Read more
Sight can be so effortless, so useful, and so entertaining--the average human can distinguish several million colors; a falcon can see a fencepost from three thousand yards--that we never stop to think about how complex a process it is and how easily it can fail us. We never have as clear and complete a picture of the world around us as we think we do. The gaps between what our eyes take in and what is in our mind's eye provide the unifying theme in Bruno Breitmeyer's wide-ranging volume. In his fascinating account of the many ways that our eyes, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195394269
SKU
V9780195394269
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99-15
About Bruno G. Breitmeyer
Bruno Breitmeyer, Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston, studied mathematics at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and received his Ph D in experimental psychology from Stanford University. Over the past four decades his research has focused on the spatiotemporal dynamics of visual perception. He is an internationally acknowledged expert in the areas of visual masking and nonconscious visual ... Read more
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