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

<p><b>Liliana Albertazzi </b>is a Principal Investigator at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMEC), and Professor at the Department of Humanities of Trento University, Italy. Her research investigates phenomenal qualities, and the nature of perceptual space/time and visual operations. She has led a major international project to develop an accurate descriptive theory of appearances on an experimental basis. She is the editor of <i>Perception Beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes </i>(2011).</p>

While the scientific study of vision is well-advanced and its concepts are widely agreed, there is still no universally accepted theory of qualitative visual appearances. Using such a theory, what we generally call objects in perception would effectively become collections of secondary qualities such as shape, direction, colour, transparency and luminosity, unified by the mind of the perceiver. Visual perception would thus become integrated into cognitive psychology, allowing for a more systematic and more broadly useful view than that offered by highly focused neuropsychological research. <p>Leading researchers around the world have taken up this challenge, and a body of knowledge has emerged as the new and interdisciplinary field of experimental phenomenology. This state-of-the-art handbook presents that knowledge, along with contextual material and new developments centered on the analysis of appearances. This emerging field has relevance and potential applications across a wide range of disciplines, and the stellar contributor list includes cognitive scientists, physicists, experimental psychologists, architectural designers, mathematicians and philosophers.</p>

<p>Systematic concern with visual appearances is as oldas modern science but it has not been pursued with the consistency accorded to visual processing.  Galileo interrogated appearances in contrast to the optical approach heralded in his day by Kepler and Scheiner. Now the study of appearances is enjoying a renaissance due in no small part to the novel techniques of experimental phenomenology so clearly expounded in this book.  Its practitioners are neither unified in their methods nor in their theories but they do share dissatisfactions with analyses of perception that sidestep the subjective dimensions which are fundamental features of our experience.—<b>Nicholas Wade, Emeritus Professor, University of Dundee.</b></p> <p>This Handbook brings together a distinguished collection of thinkers and researchers who address the subjective nature of visual perception as a science in its own right and who have developed a variety of new methods and concepts to investigate it. This could become an important book that redresses the balance of discussion and debate about what 'seeing' is, and its role in our mental lives.—<b>Mark Georgeson, Professor of Vision Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham.</b></p>

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