ABSTRACT
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The aim of this chapter is to introduce students to some of the important issues in the psychology of perception. It begins with a discussion of the major issues to do with the perception of form. These are referred to as the figure-ground problem, the perceptual constancies and visual illusions. Next we look at how we perceive depth and the three sections after that deal with the perception and recognition of patterns and objects. These are followed by a discussion of bottom-up and top-down processes in perception. The chapter concludes with a description of some of the processes involved in speech perception.
