Recommended Reading¶
The following are texts and other media, including our own, that we recommend for anyone interested in spatial perception and concrete experience.
- Albright TD. Neuroscience for architecture. In Robinson S, Pallasmaa J (Eds), Mind in architecture: Neuroscience, embodiment, and the future of design. MIT Press, pp. 197-218, 2015.
- Arnheim R. The dynamics of architectural form. University of California Press, 1977.
- Ash MG. Gestalt psychology in German culture, 1890-1967: Holism and the quest for objectivity. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 1998.
- Attneave F. Some informational aspects of visual perception. Psychological Review, 61(3):183, 1954.
- Bachelard G. The poetics of space. Beacon Press, 1994.
- Baldasso R. Portrait of Luca Pacioli and disciple: A new, mathematical look. The Art Bulletin. 92(1-2):83-102, 2010. LINK
- Banks MS, Gepshtein S, Landy MS. Why is spatial stereoresolution so low? Journal of Neuroscience, 24 (9), 2077-2089, 2004.
- Barthes R. The death of the author. Contributions in Philosophy 83: 3-8, 2001. [Originally published in French in 1967 as La mort de l’auteur.]
- Boring EG. A history of experimental psychology. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2nd edition, 1950.
- Bozzi P. Experimental phenomenology: A historical profile. In Shapes of Forms, 19-50. Springer, 1999.
- Bradley DR, Petry HM, Organizational determinants of subjective contour: The subjective Necker cube. The American Journal of Psychology, 90:253-262, 1977.
- Brentano F. Psychology from an empirical standpoint. Routledge, London, 1874/1973.
- Bullough E, Psychical distance as a factor in art and an aesthetic principle. British Journal of Psychology 5:87-118, 1912.
- Carrasco M, Penpeci-Talgar C, Eckstein M. Spatial covert attention increases contrast sensitivity across the CSF: support for signal enhancement. Vision Research, 40(10):1203-1215, 2000.
- Cavanagh P. The artist as neuroscientist. Nature, 434(7031):301-307, 2005.
- Damasio AR. Remembering when. Scientific American, 287(3):66-73, 2002.
- De Valois RL, De Valois KK. Spatial vision. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, 1990.
- Dosher BA, Sperling G. A century of human information-processing theory. In Julian Hochberg, editor, Perception and Cognition at Century’s End: History, Philosophy, Theory, pp 199-252. Academic Press, 1998.
- Epstein W, Hatfield G. Gestalt psychology and the philosophy of mind. Philosophical Psychology, 7, 163-181, 1994.
- Fisher SS. An authoring toolkit for mixed reality experiences. In International Workshop on Entertainment Computing, pp. 487-494, Makuhari, Japan, May 14-17, 2002. LINK
- Gepshtein S. Two psychologies of perception and the prospect of their synthesis. Philosophical Psychology, 23(2):217-281, 2010.
- Gepshtein S, Banks MS. Viewing geometry determines how vision and touch combine in size perception. Current Biology, 13 (6), 483-488, 2003.
- Gepshtein S, Kubovy M. The emergence of visual objects in space-time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 97 (14), 8186-8191, 2000.
- Gepshtein S, Lesmes LA, Albright TD. Sensory adaptation as optimal resource allocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A., 110(11):4368-4373, 2013.
- Gershun A. Svetovoe pole (The light field, in English). Journal of Mathematics and Physics, XVIII(1):51-151, 1939.
- Gibson JJ. The senses considered as perceptual systems. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1966.
- Gurwitsch A. The collected works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973). Volume III: The field of consciousness. Theme, thematic field, and margin. Springer Science & Business Media, 2010.
- Hatfield GC. The natural and the normative: Theories of spatial perception from Kant to Helmholtz. MIT Press, 1990.
- Heidelberger M. Nature from within: Gustav Theodor Fechner and his psychophysical worldview. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.
- Howard IP. Perceiving in depth, volume 1: Basic mechanisms. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Howard IP. Perceiving in depth, volume 2: Stereoscopic vision. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Howard IP. Perceiving in depth, volume 3: Other mechanisms of depth perception. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Ivins WM. Art & geometry: a study in space intuitions. Courier Corporation, 1964.
- Jacquette D. The Cambridge companion to Brentano. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- James W. The principles of psychology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1890/2013.
- Jammer M. Concepts of space: The history of theories of space in physics. Third edition. Dover Publications, New York, 1993.
- Kelly DH. Motion and vision II. Stabilized spatio-temporal threshold surface. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 69(10):1340-1349, 1979.
- Kemp M. The science of art: Optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1990.
- Kingdom FAA, Prins N. Psychophysics: A practical introduction. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2010.
- Koffka K. Principles of Gestalt psychology. A Harbinger Book, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., New York, NY, USA, 1935/1963.
- Kubota A, Smolic A, Magnor M, Tanimoto M, Chen T, Zhang C. Multiview imaging and 3DTV. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 26(6):10-21, 2007.
- Kubovy M. The Psychology of perspective and Renaissance art. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988.
- Kubovy M. Goya breaks Alberti’s window to send a message. Rivista di Estetica, 43(24):89-95, 2003.
- Kubovy M, Pomerantz JR. Perceptual organization. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Incorporated, 1981.
- Kubovy M, Epstein W, Gepshtein S. Visual perception: Theoretical and methodological foundations. In Healy AF, Proctor RW (Eds), Experimental Psychology, Second edition, 85-119, Volume 4 in Weiner IB (Editor-in-Chief) Handbook of Psychology. John Wiley & Sons, New York, USA, 2013. PDF
- Kubovy M, Gepshtein S. Perceptual grouping in space and in space-time: An exercise in phenomenological psychophysics. In Behrmann M, Kimchi R, Olson CR (Eds), Perceptual organization in vision: Behavioral and neural perspectives, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 45-85, 2003. PDF
- Levoy M. Light fields and computational imaging. Computer, (8):46-55, 2006
- Levoy M, Hanrahan P. Light field rendering. In Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp 31-42. ACM, 1996.
- Lynch K. The image of the city. MIT press, 1960.
- Lynn G. Folds, bodies & blobs: collected essays. Lettre volée, 2004.
- Lynn G, Kelly T. Animate form. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.
- Mallgrave HF. The architect’s brain: Neuroscience, creativity, and architecture. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
- Maloney LT. Statistical decision theory and biological vision. In Heyer D & Mausfeld R (Eds), Perception and the Physical World: Psychological and Philosophical Issues in Perception. New York: Wiley, pp. 145-189, 2002. PDF
- Maloney LT, Ahumada AJ. Learning by assertion: Two methods for calibrating a linear visual system. Neural Computation, 1(3):392-401, 1989. LINK
- Macnamara J. Through the rearview mirror: Historical reflections on psychology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999.
- McDowell A, World Building and Narrative. Interview released on www.lynda.com on October 9, 2015. LINK
- McDowell A, Gepshtein S. Weaving mercury: The future of narrative media and world building. Keynote address. Second Filmatic Festival, Qualcomm Institute Auditorium, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. April 30, 2015, 19:00-20:00. LINK
- McMullin E. The origins of the field concept in physics. Physics in Perspective, 4(1):13-39, 2002.
- Merleau-Ponty M. Phenomenology of perception. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi, 1996. The French original was published in 1945.
- Nagel T. The view from nowhere. Oxford University Press, New York, 1986.
- Oliva A. The art of hybrid images: Two for the view of one. Art & Perception, 1:65-74, 2013.
- Ouellette J. Seen and unseen: Could there ever be a “cinema without cuts”? Scientific American Blogs, April 29, 2014. LINK
- Pacific Standard Staff. How the movies of tomorrow will play with your mind. Pacific Standard, April 29, 2014. LINK
- Palmer SE. Vision science: Photons to phenomenology. MIT press, 1999.
- Pelli DG, Farell B. Psychophysical methods. In M Bass, C DeCusatis, J Enoch, and et al., editors, Handbook of Optics, Third Edition, Volume III: Vision and Vision Optics, pp 3.1-29.12. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2010. PDF
- Reichenbach H. The philosophy of space and time. Dover Publications, 1957.
- Robinson S, Pallasmaa J. Mind in architecture: Neuroscience, embodiment, and the future of design. MIT Press. 2015.
- Robson JR. Contrast sensitivity: One hundred years of clinical measurement. In Robert M Shapley and Dominic Man-Kit Lam, editors, Contrast Sensitivity, pp 253-67. MIT Press, 1993.
- Rock I, Palmer SE. The legacy of Gestalt psychology. Scientific American, 263:84-90, 1990.
- Schade OH. Optical and photoelectric analog of the eye. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 46(9):721-739, 1956.
- Shepard RN. Mind sights: Original visual illusions, ambiguities, and other anomalies. With a commentary on the play of mind in perception and art. New York: WH Freeman & Co., 1990.
- Smart JJC. Problems of space and time. Macmillan, New York, 1964.
- Suppes P, Krantz D, Luce D, Tversky, A. Foundations of measurement, vol. II: Geometrical, threshold, and probability representations. Academic Press, San Diego, 1989.
- Wagemans J, Elder JH, Kubovy K, Palmer SE, Peterson MA, Singh M, von der Heydt R. A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception: I. Perceptual grouping and figure-ground organization. Psychological Bulletin, 138(6):1172, 2012.
- Wagemans J, Feldman J, Gepshtein S, Kimchi R, Pomerantz JR, van der Helm PA, van Leeuwen C. A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception: II. Conceptual and theoretical foundations. Psychological Bulletin, 138(6):1218-1252, 2012.
- Watson AB, Ahumada AJ. The pyramid of visibility. Electronic Imaging, 16, 1-6, 2016. LINK
- Wheeler JA, Taylor EF. Spacetime physics. WH Freeman, 1966.
- Willats J. Art and representation: New principles in the analysis of pictures. Princeton University Press, 1997.
- Wollheim R. Painting as an art. Thames and Hudson, London, 1987.