Visuelle Wahrnehmung

The perceived image of our environment is our reality. After all, how could the world be anything other than what it appears in our objective minds? But if that is true, why does any object not appear smaller when we view it from an increasing distance? Why does our perception of a surface color not change under neutral midday sunlight and the red-tinged light of the evening? Why do we perceive a world that is layered in depth, even though its image on the retina is only two-dimensional? Three questions are enough to shake our visual certainty. This book explores these and many other questions, providing a vivid impression of how our visual system creates a consistent world from the ambiguous stimulus patterns of the retina. In the end, it leads to the realization that seeing is information processing.