ABSTRACT

Perception is about the reception, selection, acquisition, transformation and organization of sensory information. This book, originally published in 1976, discusses a number of aspects of human perception within a theoretical framework in which man is considered as a processor of information. The main emphasis is on visual perception with particular reference to looking and pattern recognition; selective listening and speech recognition are also discussed.

chapter 1|11 pages

Some preliminaries

chapter 2|15 pages

Structure and beyond

chapter 3|17 pages

Weights and measures

chapter 4|13 pages

Information acquisition

chapter 5|9 pages

Perception in a glance

chapter 6|14 pages

Information selection

chapter 7|13 pages

Pattern recognition

chapter 8|14 pages

Modes of information processing

chapter 9|18 pages

Expectations and context