Vision and Art with Two Eyes

Nicholas J. Wade is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He received his degree in psychology from the University of Edinburgh and his Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, at Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioural Physiology, Germany.  His research is concerned with the representation of space and motion in human vision, the history of vision research, binocular and motion perception, and the interplay between visual science and art. He has carried out psychophysical research on many visual phenomena and has written extensively on the history of the vision and perception. Nick Wade is the author of more than 20 successful books as well as multitudinous influential papers in the field. He is a long time consulting editor of the journal “Perception” and Section editor on Sensory and Behavioral Sciences of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.

• Setting the seen.- A little history.- Binocular vision.- Stereoscopes.- Stereoscopic vision.- Binocular rivalry.- Binocular controversies.- Binocular art.- Conclusion.