Perception and Illusion Historical Perspectives /

• Main Author: Wade, Nicholas J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Library of the History of Psychological Theories
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; History of Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.

The understanding of perception is central to our knowledge of the mind. Yet paradoxically, this understanding was born of centuries of fascination with errors of human perception. Perception and Illusion: Historical Perspectives elegantly retraces this scientific journey, not only in terms of its t...

Table of Contents:

• Recording Observations
• Nature of Perceptual Error
• Nature of Veridicality
• Perception in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• The Instrumental Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
• The Response Revolution in the Nineteenth Century
• The Fragmentation of the Senses in the Nineteenth Century
• The Twentieth Century—The Multiplication of Illusion
• Conclusions.