Richard Langton Gregory

Discusses the physiological and psychological aspects influencing the functioning of the eye and brain in perception

The Psychology of Seeing

Eye and Brain

Oliver Louis Zangwill

Professor of Neuropsychology and Director of the Brain and Perception Laboratory R L Gregory

With over 900 entries, ranging from brief definitions to substantial essays on major topics, this book takes the reader on a dazzling tour of an endlessly fascinating subject, spanning many disciplines within philosophy, psychology and the physiology of the brain. 160 illustrations.

The Oxford Companion to the Mind

Oxford University Press

Gregory, Richard Langton Gregory

Features more than nine hundred entries covering such everyday events as sleep, humor, and forgetting as well as complex topics such as bilingualism, parapsychology, animal magnetism, and the workings of the nervous system

The meaning, use, and effects of illusion are discussed from artistic and scientific perspectives

Illusion in Nature and Art

Our senses bring us all the information we have about the outside world, but do they tell the truth? If you've never questioned this before you may be about to. From seeing and hearing to feeling and believing; from the shape of traffic signs to knowledge of quantum mechanics, all our interactions with the outside world are mediated by perception. Knowledge is further distilled by the machines which help our own biological mechanisms--magnifying glasses, electric lights and, and, even more powerfully--computer technology. However, if the natural structures of perception can affect our interpretation of the world, how much more dramatically might these tools of accuracy distort reality? In his latest collection of essays, Richard Gregory uses a series of whimsical tales of his childhood, family and friends, the famous and the infamous to illuminate scientific principles and puzzles. He weaves together these amusing anecdotes to form a personal vista of some of the most profound and puzzling questions in science today, quickly drawing the reader into debates on Hamlet's feelings, Schrodinger's cat, thinking machines and more. At times charming, entertaining and even confusing, Even Odder Perceptionswill always leave the reader pondering. Each individual essay stands complete on its own; yet read as a whole, the book is an insightful and entertaining study on the magic of human perception.

Richard Langton Gregory

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