Perception

Perception by Irvin Rock. Published by Scientific American, New York, NY, 1984. 1st Edition1st Printing. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: V-Fine in Good DJ. Sm black mark on front of DJ. 243 Pgs. ISBN 0716750015. LCCN 83-20104. The other explores the processes of everyday perception of challenging those processes with experiments ingeniously contrived by himself and other investigators in the field. He elucidates the province of perception in a fresh and appealing way, helping us to understand the wondrous riddle of perception: how we manage to transcend the distortion-prone, ambiguous, two-dimensional images established on the retina to achieve the rich, constant, three-dimensional representation of the world that we do. Illustrated. Stereopticon 707 included in envelope inside back cover. Description text copyright 2005 BooksForComfort. Item ID 9089.