Liliana Albertazzi 
Handbook of Experimental Phenomenology [EPUB ebook] 
Visual Perception of Shape, Space and Appearance

While the scientific study of vision is well-advanced, a universal
theory of qualitative visual appearances (texture, shape, colour
and so on) is still lacking. This interdisciplinary handbook
presents the work of leading researchers around the world who have
taken up the challenge of defining and formalizing the field of
‘experimental phenomenology’.



* Presents and discusses a new perspective in vision science, and
formalizes a field of study that will become increasingly
significant to researchers in visual science and beyond

* The contributors are outstanding scholars in their fields with
impeccable academic credentials, including Jan J. Koenderink,
Irving Biederman, Donald Hoffmann, Steven Zucker and Nikos
Logothetis

* Divided into five parts: Linking Psychophysics and Qualities;
Qualities in Space, Time and Motion; Appearances; Measurement and
Qualities; Science and Aesthetics of Appearances

* Each chapter will have the same structure consisting of: topic
overview; historical roots; debate; new perspective; methods;
results and recent developments

Tabela de Conteúdo

About the Editor vii

About the Contributors ix

Preface xiii

Experimental Phenomenology: An Introduction 1

Liliana Albertazzi

Part I Linking Psychophysics and Qualities 37

1 Inferential and Ecological Theories of Visual Perception 39

Joseph S. Lappin

2 Public Objects and Private Qualia: The Scope and Limits of
Psychophysics 71

Donald D. Hoffman

3 The Attribute of Realness and the Internal Organization of
Perceptual Reality 91

Rainer Mausfeld

4 Multistable Visual Perception as a Gateway to the Neuronal
Correlates of Phenomenal Consciousness: The Scope and Limits of
Neuroscientifi c Analysis 119

Theofanis I. Panagiotaropoulos and Nikos K. Logothetis

5 Phenomenal Qualities and the Development of Perceptual
Integration 145

Mariann Hudák, Zoltan Jakab, and Ilona Kovács

Part II Qualities in Space, Time, and Motion 163

6 Surface Shape, the Science and the Looks 165

Jan J. Koenderink

7 Experimental Phenomenology of Visual 3D Space: Considerations
from Evolution, Perception, and Philosophy 181

Dhanraj Vishwanath

8 Spatial and Form-Giving Qualities of Light 205

Sylvia C. Pont

9 Image Motion and the Appearance of Objects 223

Katja Dörschner

10 The Role of Stimulus Properties and Cognitive Processes in
the Quality of the Multisensory Perception of Synchrony 243

Argiro Vatakis

Part III Appearances 265

11 Appearances From a Radical Standpoint 267

Liliana Albertazzi

12 How Attention Can Alter Appearances 291

Peter U. Tse, Eric A. Reavis, Peter J. Kohler, Gideon P.
Caplovitz, and Thalia Wheatley

13 Illusion and Illusoriness: New Perceptual Issues and New
Phenomena 317

Baingio Pinna

14 Qualitative Inference Rules for Perceptual Transparency
343

Osvaldo Da Pos and Luigi Burigana

15 The Perceptual Quality of Color 369

Anya Hurlbert

16 The Aesthetic Appeal of Visual Qualities 395

Gert van Tonder and Branka Spehar

Part IV Measurement and Qualities 415

17 Psychophysical and Neural Correlates of the Phenomenology of
Shape 417

Irving Biederman

18 What Are Intermediate-Level Visual Features? 437

Steven W. Zucker

19 Basic Colors and Image Features: The Case for an Analogy
449

Lewis D. Griffin

20 Measuring the Immeasurable: Quantitative Analyses of
Perceptual Experiments 477

Luisa Canal and Rocco Micciolo

21 The Non-Accidentalness Principle for Visual Perception
499

Agnès Desolneux, Lionel Moisan, and Jean-Michel
Morel

Name Index 515

Subject Index 529

Sobre o autor

Liliana Albertazzi is a Principal Investigator at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMEC), and Professor at the Department of Humanities of Trento University, Italy. Her research investigates phenomenal qualities, and the nature of perceptual space/time and visual operations. She has led a major international project to develop an accurate descriptive theory of appearances on an experimental basis. She is the editor of Perception Beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes (2011).