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.

Preface

1. Our Idea of the Physical World
2. The Basic Anatomy of the Eye
3. How Photoreceptors Sense Light
4. Seeing Things That Aren’t There
5. Not Seeing Things That Are There
6. Brightness Constancy
7. Why the Rate Of Unbleaching Is Important
8. A Little Optics
9. Optometrists, Ophthalmologists, Opticians: What They Do
10. Color Vision
11. Actually Seeing and Not Seeing: Neural Mechanisms

Epilogue
Appendix: Refraction by Waves
Selected Bibliography
Index