Seeing

Tom Cornsweet is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences, Electrical Engineering, and Ophthalmology at the University of California, Irvine and Berkeley. He is an experimental psychologist, author, and inventor known for his pioneering work in visual perception, known as the Cornsweet Illusion.

• Preface1. Our Idea of the Physical World2. The Basic Anatomy of the Eye3. How Photoreceptors Sense Light4. Seeing Things That Aren’t There5. Not Seeing Things That Are There6. Brightness Constancy7. Why the Rate Of Unbleaching Is Important8. A Little Optics9. Optometrists, Ophthalmologists, Opticians: What They Do10. Color Vision11. Actually Seeing and Not Seeing: Neural MechanismsEpilogueAppendix: Refraction by WavesSelected BibliographyIndex

“By encouraging us to rethink horror and Indian cinemas in ways that affect the study of other kinds of films as well, Seeing Things is poised to make significant conceptual, historical, and methodological contributions to the field.”