ABSTRACT

In Chapter 1 we claimed that the contribution of new techniques or methodologies to perceptual research and theory was very considerable. It is hoped that readers will now agree with this claim, after having read about the wide range of techniques reviewed in this volume. Laser scans of the environment, habituation techniques with infants, virtual reality rooms, analyses of optical flow, the creation of pi numbers, fMRI scans, connectionist modelling, spatial frequency analysis, image processing by Gaussian and Gabor filters – each of these has contributed importantly to the work described in the relevant chapters.