Table of Contents
About the Editor vii
About the Contributors ix
Preface xiii
Experimental Phenomenology: An Introduction 1 Liliana Albertazzi
Part I Linking Psychophysics and Qualities 37 1 Inferential and Ecological Theories of Visual Perception 39 Joseph S. Lappin
2 Public Objects and Private Qualia: The Scope and Limits of Psychophysics 71 Donald D. Hoffman
3 The Attribute of Realness and the Internal Organization of Perceptual Reality 91 Rainer Mausfeld
4 Multistable Visual Perception as a Gateway to the Neuronal Correlates of Phenomenal Consciousness: The Scope and Limits of Neuroscientifi c Analysis 119 Theofanis I. Panagiotaropoulos and Nikos K. Logothetis
5 Phenomenal Qualities and the Development of Perceptual Integration 145 Mariann Hudák, Zoltan Jakab, and Ilona Kovács
Part II Qualities in Space, Time, and Motion 163
6 Surface Shape, the Science and the Looks 165 Jan J. Koenderink
7 Experimental Phenomenology of Visual 3D Space: Considerations from Evolution, Perception, and Philosophy 181 Dhanraj Vishwanath
8 Spatial and Form-Giving Qualities of Light 205 Sylvia C. Pont
9 Image Motion and the Appearance of Objects 223 Katja Dörschner
10 The Role of Stimulus Properties and Cognitive Processes in the Quality of the Multisensory Perception of Synchrony 243 Argiro Vatakis
Part III Appearances 265
11 Appearances From a Radical Standpoint 267 Liliana Albertazzi
12 How Attention Can Alter Appearances 291 Peter U. Tse, Eric A. Reavis, Peter J. Kohler, Gideon P. Caplovitz, and Thalia Wheatley
13 Illusion and Illusoriness: New Perceptual Issues and New Phenomena 317 Baingio Pinna
14 Qualitative Inference Rules for Perceptual Transparency 343 Osvaldo Da Pos and Luigi Burigana
15 The Perceptual Quality of Color 369 Anya Hurlbert
16 The Aesthetic Appeal of Visual Qualities 395 Gert van Tonder and Branka Spehar
Part IV Measurement and Qualities 415
17 Psychophysical and Neural Correlates of the Phenomenology of Shape 417 Irving Biederman
18 What Are Intermediate-Level Visual Features? 437 Steven W. Zucker
19 Basic Colors and Image Features: The Case for an Analogy 449 Lewis D. Griffin
20 Measuring the Immeasurable: Quantitative Analyses of Perceptual Experiments 477 Luisa Canal and Rocco Micciolo
21 The Non-Accidentalness Principle for Visual Perception 499 Agnès Desolneux, Lionel Moisan, and Jean-Michel Morel
Name Index 515
Subject Index 529