ABSTRACT

Spatial vision is a subject in which philosophy, psychology, ophthalmology, neurophysiology and pathology meet. It is the unique contribution of this book that gives a survey of the whole subject, in historical perspective. The author, a former professor of ophthalmology at the University of Amsterdam, is an authority in the field of binocular visi

part |2 pages

Part I

chapter 1|8 pages

A Short History of Space1

chapter 2|8 pages

Perceptual Space

chapter 3|6 pages

Non-Visual Spatial Perception

part |2 pages

Part II: TheVisual Perception of Space

chapter 4|16 pages

Some Basic Facts about theVisual System

chapter 6|28 pages

Directional Vision

chapter 7|30 pages

Stereoscopic Perception of Depth1

chapter 9|8 pages

The Perception of Movement

chapter 10|12 pages

Theories of the Visual Perception of Space

part |2 pages

PART III: Identification of Objects in Space

chapter 11|10 pages

Contours and Surfaces

chapter 12|10 pages

Seeing Objects in Depth

chapter 13|4 pages

The Perception of Size