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The Space Between Our Ears: How the Brain Represents Visual Space

The Space Between Our Ears: How the Brain Represents Visual Space


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In The Space Between Our Ears Michael Morgan explains how our brain interprets the images that the outside world forms in our eyes.

Using a wealth of sources from over the centuries - philosophical writings, scientific thinking, experiments, passages from poems, novels and films - Morgan reveals the problems that the brain has to confront in manufacturing our perceptions.

The book includes optical drawings as well as some simple experiments that the reader can do to test the different components of one's sight and our own reactions to it.

There is a long way to go in neurological terms before we can understand how our brains actually see, or indeed the precise location of where this happens inside the grey matter. Morgan recognizes that to achieve such an understanding may even necessitate the development of a new language that can better encompass the difficult scientific and logical interpretations that will have to be made.

This intelligent, engaging book provides a revelatory overview of what we know about how the brain works regarding visual space, giving a unique insight into one of our most vital yet least understood senses.

About the Author :
Michael Morgan has held numerous academic positions and is currently Professor of Visual Psychophysics at The City University, London.

Review :
his is the most acutely imagined account of the visual brian for the lay reader since Steven Pinker revealed HOW THE BRAIN WORKS. - NEW SCIENTIST - Simon Ings

Morgan provides an accessible exposition without doing violence to subtlety, and his book has won him the coveted Wellcome Trust prize. - SUNDAY TIMES - John Cornwall

entertains as it informs. It if is true that visual perception is the latest arms of philosophy to break away and join the sciences, THE SPACE BETWEEN OUR EAR is the narrative such a momentous event deserves. - THE SPECTATOR - Nicholas Fearn

'a clearly written account.... Morgan is particularly good on the problem of binocularlity, depth perception........ Morgan knows enough and writes well enough to keep us engaged - THE GUARDIAN - Steven Rose

very engaging...... like a good science TV programme, it's full of worthwhile digressions - FOCUS

a glorious book. Michael Morgan's manner is witty and engaging and he is never loath to offer opinions, some of which seem likely to raise controversy. - TLS - John Harrison


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780297829706
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Height: 241 mm
  • Sub Title: How the Brain Represents Visual Space
  • Width: 164 mm
  • ISBN-10: 029782970X
  • Publisher Date: 13 Nov 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 524 gr


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