- Paperback: 290 pages
- Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.; illustrated edition edition (1 Feb 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0486404498
- ISBN-13: 978-0486404493
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 1.7 x 21.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,236,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Written for undergraduate psychology students, this book explores the physiological and psychological mechanisms underlying a host of optical illusions. Includes some 240 drawings. This is a corrected, unabridged republication of the work originally published by Hutchinson & Co. in 1972. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Format:Paperback
This is a great book on visual illusions with which I first became familiar in its first edition. I was then a student at University College Cardiff where its author was a lecturer in Psychology specialising in perception. Jim's meticulous approach to the subject is reflected in the care with which this book has been put together. No doubt there are other books on the subject, but if you want an informative book on the psychology of visual illusions, this must be one of the orginals and best in the field. I recommend it to you.
Professor Mark McDermott
School of Psychology
University of East London
Professor Mark McDermott
School of Psychology
University of East London
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From a person who enjoys reading text books for fun, I love "that kind of reading". This book is so intollerable I simply could not finish it no matter how many times I tried. It jumps around and references all of these people and studies which I have no clue as to what the heck is going on. If you have studied the history of illusions and know all of it than you would probably know what the author is referencing, but then again if you know all of that why would you read the book in the first place. i got much more out of "the science of illusions" by jaques ninio
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