Mental Images & their Transformations (Paper) - Softcover

Shepard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262690993 ISBN 13: 9780262690997

Publisher: MIT Press, 1981

Synopsis

This book collects some of the most exciting pioneering work in perceptual and cognitive psychology. The authors' quantitative approach to the study of mental images and their representation is clearly depicted in this invaluable volume of research which presents, interprets, evaluates, and extends their work. The selections are preceded by a thorough review of the history of their experiments, and all of the articles have been updated with reviews of the current literature.

The book's first part focuses on mental rotation; the second includes other, more complex transformations and sequences of transformations. A third part describes work on rotational transformations in the context of the perceptual illusion of "apparent motion."

Roger N. Shepard is Professor of Psychology, Stanford University. Lynn A. Cooper is Professor of Psychology, University of Arizona. A Bradford Book.

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Review

"Creativity is the hallmark of this summary of the contribution of Roger Shepard and Lynn Cooper and their outstanding collaborators to the problem of mental transformations ... a clear exposition of some of the best research ever done in cognitive psychology."- "Contemporary Psychology"

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262690993
• ISBN 13: 9780262690997
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376