Baird / Eysenck Psychophysical Analysis of Visual Space

International Series of Monographs in Experimental Psychology
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4831-5733-7
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Web PDF

Psychophysical Analysis of Visual Space focuses on the use of psychophysics in the analysis of visual space, with emphasis on space perception and physiological optics. Topics covered include null-size judgment, ratio-size judgment, frontal-size judgment, and distance judgment, as well as selected physiological correlates of size and distance judgments. A theoretical analysis of model reduction is also presented. This volume consists of 11 chapters and opens with an overview of basic definitions and evidence in support of the constancy hypothesis. A psychophysical approach to the problems of visual space is described. The reader is then introduced to null-size judgment, ratio-size judgment, frontal-size judgment, and distance judgment, with emphasis on the importance of the retina as a reference for spatial judgments and how size judgments of targets at different distances can be related to judgments of targets at a constant distance. Some of the important relationships between ocular physiology and size-distance judgments are also examined, paying particular attention to size and distance judgments which relate to the variables of convergence, accommodation, angle-of-regard, and binocular disparity. The remaining chapters look at two stimulus correlates of distance judgments: frontal size and longitudinal size. This book will be of interest to physiologists, physicists, and experimental psychologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baird, John C.

Eysenck, H. J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Psychophysical Analysis of Visual Space;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;PREFACE;8
6;CHAPTER 1. ANALYSIS OF VISUAL SPACE;10
6.1;The Psychophysical Approach;12
6.2;References;15
7;CHAPTER 2. NULL-SIZE JUDGMENT: DISTANCECONSTANT;17
7.1;Two-target Comparison Method;18
7.2;Low Stimulus-uncertainty;21
7.3;High Stimulus-uncertainty;27
7.4;Stimulus Frames;32
7.5;Overview;39
7.6;References;39
8;CHAPTER 3. RATIO-SIZE JUDGMENT: DISTANCECONSTANT;41
8.1;Ratio Methods;42
8.2;Empirical Results;47
8.3;Overview;72
8.4;References;78
9;CHAPTER 4. RATIO-SIZE PRODUCTION: DISTANCEVARIABLE;81
9.1;Mathematical Description;82
9.2;Empirical Results;84
9.3;Functionalism and Instructions;109
9.4;Overview;111
9.5;References;119
10;CHAPTER 5. THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OFFRONTAL-SIZE JUDGMENTS;121
10.1;The Null and Ratio Models;124
10.2;Null and Distance Models;133
10.3;Ratio and Distance Models;141
10.4;Overview;151
10.5;References;157
11;CHAPTER 6. FRONTAL-SIZE JUDGMENTS:INTERMEDIATE STIMULUSUNCERTAINT;159
11.1;Uncertainty Reduction;161
11.2;Context Effects;174
11.3;Overview;187
11.4;References;191
12;CHAPTER 7. SELECTED PHYSIOLOGICALCORRELATES OF SIZE ANDDISTANCE JUDGMENTS;193
12.1;Convergence and Accommodation;193
12.2;Eye Elevation and Depression;214
12.3;Binocular Disparity;218
12.4;Overview;222
12.5;References;224
13;CHAPTER 8. THEORETICAL ANALYSISOF MODEL REDUCTION;226
13.1;Linear Transformations;227
13.2;Nonlinear Transformations;234
13.3;The Summation Hypothesis;241
13.4;The Unit Hypothesis;243
13.5;The Amplifier Hypothesis;246
13.6;Overview;249
13.7;References;251
14;CHAPTER 9. DISTANCE JUDGMENTS:FRONTAL-SIZE CORRELATES;252
14.1;Mathematical Description;253
14.2;The D-Null Model;255
14.3;The D-Ratio Model;258
14.4;The D-Size Model;264
14.5;Overview;272
14.6;References;277
15;CHAPTER 10. DISTANCE JUDGMENTS:LONGITUDINAL-SIZE CORRELATES;279
15.1;Mathematical Description;280
15.2;Empirical Results;283
15.3;Overview;292
15.4;References;294
16;CHAPTER 11. CONCLUSIONS AND CONTRASTS;296
16.1;Conclusions and Implications;297
16.2;Assumptions;303
16.3;Further Applications;305
16.4;References;307
17;APPENDIX: THREE PHILOSOPHIESOF MEASUREMENT;309
17.1;References;319
18;AUTHOR INDEX;320
19;SUBJECT INDEX;324