Cambridge The Psychology of Visual Art : Eye, Brain and Art – Paperback – 24 October 2013   Import  Single ASIN  Import

5 reviews for Cambridge The Psychology of Visual Art : Eye, Brain and Art – Paperback – 24 October 2013   Import  Single ASIN  Import

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   Rated 3 out of 5

   analyst – 20 August 2014

   Reader beware. Science is not always what it seems.
   Like the psychology of thinking in the 1950’s the psychology of art could be described as mainly the debris left behind by a number of hit and run theorists. Any book that attempts to integrate material in the field is thus welcome but I would have preferred a deeper and more critical treatment than this. Here it is a case of reader beware. There is a general problem of linking the psychology of perception to anything. As science goes it is mostly crap consisting mainly of theoretical games played in artificial contexts in the laboratory with little interest in what happens in normal vision. ‘Change blindness’ is an interesting phenomenon but basic questions have not been asked here and obvious variations in situations not examined (bad science). To happily use the results of change blindness as explanations of other effects, as the author does, is thus incautious. The Fourier analysis of pictures has also been linked to aesthetic judgements. Any mathematical analysis that yields positive results has some utility but, firsly no attempt has been made to assess the degree to which aesthetic judgements are not linked to Fourier results. (assessing the power of a variable is important). Fourier analysis only describes texture and not content of a picture. Secondly, there is no evidence the brain can carry out anything resembling a Fourier analysis for visual materials. At the moment what psychologists know about the recogition and judgements about textures could be written on the back of a postage stamp.The question that needs to be addressed is,’What kind of anaysis is the brain doing when viewing a texture?’ Overall..some interest but disappointing.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Karen – 27 October 2019

   University textbook sorted!
   Fascinating read! I bought this for my university course on kindle. I have vision problems and decided to listen to the text instead. It’s very empowering and I’m only on the third chapter. Better than my other boring textbooks.

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Jane – 3 March 2015

   Informative
   More a text than I expected. Less depth and innovation. Godd at what it does.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Jillyjop – 8 July 2018

   Five Stars
   Fantastic book if you are studying or interested in the psychology of art.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   claudiii – 12 April 2015

   great science book
   This is a great science book about the science of aesthetics, beauty research and the human brain. Easy reading chapters though very scientific.