Visual Perception
The Influence of H.W.Leibowitz
Published on 3. July 2003
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-55798-945-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume examines some of the most interesting contemporary research being conducted in the field of visual perception and performance. The contributors describe research into issues that have important practical applications in fields such as traffic safety, industrial design and public health issues. The opening section reprints a classic paper by Leibowitz on the symbiosis between basic and applied research. Subsequent sections reflect on and extend his work in psychophysics. They include chapters on clinical applications, such as early detection of glaucoma; night myopia and its controversial link to the resting state of accommodation; insights about visual illusions; the reasons we fail to perceive the hazards of night driving; and, finally, perceptual applications to other disciplines. This volume should be of interest not only to psychologists who study perception, but also to readers from related disciplines such as medicine, public health, physics and the history of science.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55798-945-1 (9781557989451)
Copyright in bibliographic data is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or its licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Hersh Leibowitz and the Science of Perception, D. Alfred Owens, Jeffrey Andre, Lewis O. Harvey Jr; Why is That Important? Hersh Leibowitz as a Model for Mentors, Sharon Toffrey Shepela; The Symbiosis Between Basic and Applied Research, Herschel W. Leibowitz; Living With Uncertainty in an Uncertain World, Lewis O. Harvey Jr; The Use of a Visual Illusion to Detect Glaucoma - Frequency Doubling Technology Perimetry, Chris A. Johnson; On the Earliest Known Lenses, Jay M. Enoch; Controversies Concerning the Resting State of Accommodation - Focusing on Leibowitz, Jeffrey Andre; Early Astigmatism Contributes to the Oblique Effect and Thereby Accounts For its Difference Between Chinese and Caucasians, Richard Held, Frank Thorn, James McLallan, Kenneth Grice and Jane Gwiazda; Misperceiving Extents in the Medical Plane - The Paradox of Shepard's Tables Illusion, Boris Crassini, Christopher J. Best and Ross H. Day; Field Dependence With Pitched, Rolled and Yawed Visual Frame Effects, Lawrence T. Guzy, Malcolm M. Cohen and Sheldon M Ebenholtz; Perception and Action - Two Modes of Processing Visual Information, Robert B. Post, Robert B. Welch and Bruce Bridgeman; Twilight Vision and Road Safety - Seeing More Than We Notice But Less Than We Think, D. Alfred Owens; Educating Pedestrians About Their Own Nighttime Visibility - An Application of Leibowitzian Principles, Richard A. Tyrrell and Chad W. Patton; Basic and Applied Nausea Research Using an Optokinetic Drum, Robert M. Stern; What is the Role of Vision During Stair Descent?, Peter R. Cavanagh and Jill S. Higginson.