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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 1930s.
This Section is about
Theories
of Visual Perception.
To read about other theories and contributions of other researchers,
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