Handbook of Experimental Phenomenology

About the Editor vii
 
About the Contributors ix
 
Preface xiii
 
Experimental Phenomenology: An Introduction 1
Liliana Albertazzi
 
Part I Linking Psychophysics and Qualities 37
 
1 Inferential and Ecological Theories of Visual Perception 39
Joseph S. Lappin
 
2 Public Objects and Private Qualia: The Scope and Limits of Psychophysics 71
Donald D. Hoffman
 
3 The Attribute of Realness and the Internal Organization of Perceptual Reality 91
Rainer Mausfeld
 
4 Multistable Visual Perception as a Gateway to the Neuronal Correlates of Phenomenal Consciousness: The Scope and Limits of Neuroscientifi c Analysis 119
Theofanis I. Panagiotaropoulos and Nikos K. Logothetis
 
5 Phenomenal Qualities and the Development of Perceptual Integration 145
Mariann Hudák, Zoltan Jakab, and Ilona Kovács
 
Part II Qualities in Space, Time, and Motion 163
 
6 Surface Shape, the Science and the Looks 165
Jan J. Koenderink
 
7 Experimental Phenomenology of Visual 3D Space: Considerations from Evolution, Perception, and Philosophy 181
Dhanraj Vishwanath
 
8 Spatial and Form-Giving Qualities of Light 205
Sylvia C. Pont
 
9 Image Motion and the Appearance of Objects 223
Katja Dörschner
 
10 The Role of Stimulus Properties and Cognitive Processes in the Quality of the Multisensory Perception of Synchrony 243
Argiro Vatakis
 
Part III Appearances 265
 
11 Appearances From a Radical Standpoint 267
Liliana Albertazzi
 
12 How Attention Can Alter Appearances 291
Peter U. Tse, Eric A. Reavis, Peter J. Kohler, Gideon P. Caplovitz, and Thalia Wheatley
 
13 Illusion and Illusoriness: New Perceptual Issues and New Phenomena 317
Baingio Pinna
 
14 Qualitative Inference Rules for Perceptual Transparency 343
Osvaldo Da Pos and Luigi Burigana
 
15 The Perceptual Quality of Color 369
Anya Hurlbert
 
16 The Aesthetic Appeal of Visual Qualities

Liliana Albertazzi is a Principal Investigator at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMEC), and Professor at the Department of Humanities of Trento University, Italy. Her research investigates phenomenal qualities, and the nature of perceptual space/time and visual operations. She has led a major international project to develop an accurate descriptive theory of appearances on an experimental basis. She is the editor of Perception Beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes (2011).