Mirrors in Mind

by Richard L. Gregory

Written by a leading researcher into perception, a central area in current work on the brain and mind, this book looks at mirrors as fascinating objects in themselves, for what they can show about vision, and as a metaphor for the perception and understanding of the "real" world.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Richard]

(Mentioned in V.S. Ramachandran's Phantoms in the Brain; apparently it includes an explanation from Richard Feynman regarding why we perceive mirrors "flipping" images from left to right, but not top to bottom. "How does the mirror know?" asks the child to the discomfited parent. "And while we're at it, why is the sky blue?".)

[Assaf]

Chapter 4 about mirror reversal - the Feynman explanation - should be nice.