Mind Sights: Original Visual Illusions, Ambiguities, and Other Anomalies, With a Commentary on the Play of Mind in Perception and Art
by Roger N Shepard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0716721341
- ISBN 13
- 9780716721345
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: W.h. Freeman And Co, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 226 p., HC, near fine in near fine DJ. Very clean solid copy, appears new. Black boards with a famous optical illusion in gold on front cover. "Part autobiography, part artist's portfolio, and part essay on perception and the psychology of art, Mind Sights shows us a brilliant scientist at work - and at play", Professor Shepard is a distinguished academic "best known for developing a computer-based method of identifying hidden patterns in data, for synthesizing an auditory illusion of endlessly rising pitch, and for his ingenious demonstration of the process of 'mental rotation'."
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- Bookseller
- Reading Rat (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RRAB2008
- Title
- Mind Sights: Original Visual Illusions, Ambiguities, and Other Anomalies, With a Commentary on the Play of Mind in Perception and Art
- Author
- Roger N Shepard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0716721341
- ISBN 13
- 9780716721345
- Publisher
- W.h. Freeman And Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- optical illusions art perception psychology social science
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About the Seller
Reading Rat
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Reading Rat
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