The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions

The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions
ISBN-10
019979460X
ISBN-13
9780199794607
Category
Medical
Pages
880
Language
English
Published
2017-05-24
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Dejan Todorovic, Arthur Gilman Shapiro

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Visual illusions are compelling phenomena that draw attention to the brain's capacity to construct our perceptual world. The Compendium is a collection of over 100 chapters on visual illusions, written by the illusion creators or by vision scientists who have investigated mechanisms underlying the phenomena. --

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