كيف يُخدع البصر

by Richard L. Gregory, ريتشارد جريجوري

Visual illusions have the capacity to both puzzle and delight: whether the swirling colors and vibrations that appear from simple concentric patterns, or surreal tricks of perspective, or the ephemeral shapes that appear as we stare into a random scattering of dots. They remind us that,
contrary to the experience of everyday life, what we perceive isn't always true.
In Seeing Through Illusion, the renowned scientist Richard Gregory explores what visual illusions can tell us about how our brains perceive the world. Looking at optical tricks and many other extraordinary phenomena, Gregory explains how scientists use them to peel back the normal processes of
perception, and to reveal how the brain performs the remarkable feat of representing the real world with the kind of richness and success which we experience and take for granted every day. And these visual illusions can not only tell us about how our brain works, but they can also reveal the brains
evolutionary past. For as our nervous systems evolved, the ways in which they perceived the visual world grew more sophisticated, moving from simple stimuli of light and darkness to the complex levels of cognition we have today. Traces of earlier stages remain buried within our brains like
stratified layers, laid down through evolutionary time, and we learn how the study of different kinds of illusions helps us to glimpse these layers.
Interweaving science with reflections on art and philosophy, fascinating psychological case-studies, and some amazing visual phenomena, this book addresses questions about consciousness and about how our brains perceive the world that have puzzled scientists and philosophers for
centuries.

Genres: Psychology, Science

235 pages, Paperback

First published February 26, 2008

Reviews

[Marawan Awad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seeing Through Illusions
توقعت أكثر مما وجدت لمثل هذا العنوان.
الترجمة على عكس ما اعتدت من مترجمي المركزي القومي للترجمة (المفضل لدي) ...

البحث حاول أن يكون شموليا بقدر الامكان في أسباب الالخداع البصري من أسباب فسيولوجيا عضوية مرورا بالأسباب النفسية إلى الأسباب المعرفية التي تعتمد على الوعي و الإدراك.

هل وجدت الجديد في الكتاب؟
ربما بسبب مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي معظم الخداعات البصرية معروفة لدى الناس و لي .... فلم تضف أنواع جديدة ... ربما قام الكتاب بوضع تسميات لها و ذكر من قام بتصميم هذه الأنواع من الخداعات منعلماء النفس و أطباء الرمد و غيرهم
من الباحثين الأنثربولوجيين.

و أظن أن معظم أسباب هذه الخداعات مفهومة لي و لغيري بالبداهة فالأسباب التي قدمها الكتاب ليست جديدة و لكن تنظيرها بشكل منهجي هو الجديد لي .... فلا يقرأ المرء كل يوم كتاب يتحدث عن هذه التفصيلة .

الكتاب يذكرنا بأن البصر لا يتم بالعين فقط و انما في الأساس هي عملية إدراكية و الوعي يلعب دور كبير فيه ، بدونه سيكون سهل خداعك!!

[Tech Nossomy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A wealth of information on sight, perception, contextual knowledge and explanations of where it falters or cannot make a decision. Personally, I would have liked to see more graphical examples to clarify the point made as well as a better connection between the topic at hand and its overarching framework, either the periodic table or the contextual framework. The experiments conducted that have lead to the results are rarely explained.
The book is therefore best read as a series of anecdotes, with empirical results and background circumstances. Also the many sidenotes are absorbing, such as whether illusions are perceived by babies, primates and parrots, as well as the experiences of people whose vision is restored after a lifetime of blindness.