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Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See

Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See

Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See Paperback - 2000

by Donald D. Hoffman

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In an informal style replete with illustrations, Hoffman presents the compelling scientific evidence for vision's constructive powers unveiling a grammar of vision--a set of rules that govern our perception of line, color, form, depth, and motion. 150 illustrations, 20 in color.

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  • Title Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See
  • Author Donald D. Hoffman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Publication date February 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR006075126
  • ISBN 9780393319675 / 0393319679
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Human information processing, Neuropsychology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98006181
  • Dewey Decimal Code 152.14
  • Quantity available 1

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Reader reviews for Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See

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Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman's exploration of the extraordinary creative genius of the mind's eye "has many virtues, of which sheer intellectual excitement is the foremost" (Nature). Hoffman explains that far from being a passive recorder of a preexisting world, the eye actively constructs every aspect of our visual experience. In an informal style replete with illustrations, Hoffman presents the compelling scientific evidence for vision's constructive powers, unveiling a grammar of vision - a set of rules that govern our perception of line, color, form, depth, and motion. Hoffman also describes the loss of these constructive powers in patients such as an artist who can no longer see or dream in color and a man who sees his father as an impostor. Finally, Hoffman explores the spinoffs of visual intelligence in the arts and technology, from film special effects to virtual reality. This is, in sum, "an outstanding example of creative popular science" (Publishers Weekly).

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You are a creative genius.
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