"A quarter of a century after her first book, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin--the "anthropologist from Mars," as Oliver Sacks dubbed her--transforms our understanding of the different ways our brains are wired. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously understood, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the purest "object visualizers" like Grandin herself,...

"Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand why we see what we do, much less how. By revealing the startling truths about the brain and its perceptions, [neuroscientist] Beau Lotto shows that the next big innovation is not a new technology: it is a new way of seeing. In his first major book, Lotto draws on over two decades of pioneering research to explain that our brain didn't evolve to see the world accurately. It...

Presents a series of optical illusions and explains what is seen.

Wie wir sehen, wahrnehmen und denken Grundlagen der Wahrnehmung verstehen Die Wirkung von Bildern reflektieren und begreifen Welche Fotos beeindruckend gut sind und warum Wie kommt es, dass Ihnen ein bestimmtes Foto besonders gut gefällt? Welche psychologischen Mechanismen wirken dabei im Hintergrund? Wieso erscheinen manche Fotos lebendig und wie wird dem Gehirn dieser Eindruck vermittelt? Und wenn eine Bildkomposition Ihre Erwartungen enttäuscht,...

A series of views of one landscape is seen from progressively closer vantage points, beginning in outer space and ending with a view of a ladybug as seen by a kneeling child.

collection of seven essays, three totally pictorial and four with text, in which the author explores different aspects of art, and how it is seen, valued, and used.

Black illustrations against a white background depict such objects as an elephant, butterfly, and leaf.