| Research into Visual Perception conducted
by Munn & Geil
Most of the investigations into human visual perception which employed
simple,
two-dimensional, geometrical forms were concerned with the influence of
the effect on visual perception of past experience.
Later, investigators began to compare the relative ease/difficultly with
which different shapes could be (1) detected, and (2) recognised
/ identified.
Munn and Geil were concerned with peripheral vision and used simple,
two-dimensional, geometrical figures, as described in their 1931 publication:
N.L.Munn & G.M.Geil, "A note on peripheral form discrimination",
J.Gen.Psychol., Vol.5, pp.78-88 (1931).
In this case, a circle, square, diamond, rectangle, hexagon and triangle
were presented to observers, at a range of locations in their field of
view, and in combinations of two (sometimes two of the same form) at any
one time.
This Section consists of short summaries of historial
research and theories into human visual perception of simple two-dimensional
objects (these are extracted and summarised from a Ph.D. Thesis [67]
dated 1996).
For more general information about the human visual system see the sections
about:
The Eye;
Parts
of Eye; Visual
Disorders; Ophthalmological
Procedures. |
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This entry relates to studies of human visual perception conducted
and published during the 1930-40s.
This Section is about
Theories
of Visual Perception.
To read about other theories and contributions of other researchers,
use the links on the left-hand side.
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