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Blindspots : the many ways we cannot see /
Sight can be so effortless, so useful, and so entertaining--the average human can distinguish several million colors; a falcon can see a fencepost from three thousand yards--that we never stop to think about how complex a process it is and how easily it can fail us. We never have as clear and comple...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Sight can be so effortless, so useful, and so entertaining--the average human can distinguish several million colors; a falcon can see a fencepost from three thousand yards--that we never stop to think about how complex a process it is and how easily it can fail us. We never have as clear and complete a picture of the world around us as we think we do. The gaps between what our eyes take in and what is in our mind's eye provide the unifying theme in Bruno Breitmeyer's wide-ranging volume. In his fascinating account of the many ways that our eyes, and minds, both see and fail to see, Breitmeyer. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199745432 0199745439 0195394267 9780195394269 1282402862 9781282402867 9786612402869 6612402865 |