Recent scientific advances have placed many traditional philosophical concepts under great
stress. In this pathbreaking book, the eminent philosopher Robert Nozick rethinks and …

The authors used a virtual environment to investigate visual control of reaching and
monocular and binocular perception of egocentric distance, size, and shape. With binocular …

The physiological and pathophysiological roles of the central nervous endogenous
cannabinoid system are not completely understood, but still represent a challenge in basic …

Symmetry is a fundamental principle of broad concern from the physical sciences to art and
design. Much of its significance derives from the perceptual appeal of symmetry to the …

A number of models of depth–cue combination suggest that the final depth percept results
from a weighted average of independent depth estimates based on the different cues …

Binocular depth inversion represents an illusion of visual perception that is sensitive to
various behavioural and psychiatric conditions. It is affected by cannabinoids, reflecting …

Psychophysical studies reveal distortions in perception of distance and shape. Are reaches
calibrated to eliminate distortions? Participants reached to the front, side, or back of a target …

Different types of texture produce differences in slant-discrimination performance (P. Rosas,
FA Wichmann, & J. Wagemans, 2004). Under the assumption that the visual system is …

This monograph is the revised version of my Habilitationsschrift Skopus und logische
Struktur. Studien zum Quantorenskopus im Deutschen (1997), Universität Tübingen. It …

It is now well known that processing of shading information in face recognition is susceptible
to bottom lighting and contrast reversal, an effect that may be due to a disruption of 3-D …