The Vision Revolution: How the Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew About Human Vision

ISBN: 1935251767

Author: Changizi, Mark

Condition: New

In The Vision Revolution, Mark Changizi, prominent neuroscientist and vision expert, addresses four areas of human vision and provides explanations for why we have those particular abilities, complete with a number of full-color illustrations to demonstrate his conclusions and to engage the reader. Written for both the casual reader and the science buff hungry for new information, The Vision Revolution is a resource that dispels commonly believed perceptions about sight and offers answers drawn from the fields most recent research.Changizi focuses on four why questions:1. Why do we see in color?2. Why do our eyes face forward?3. Why do we see illusions?4. Why does reading come so naturally to us?The Vision Revolution explores phenomena such as cyclopses, peeking and many more you hadnt even thought to wonder about. Changizi shows how deeply involved these evolutionary aspects of our vision are in why we see the way we doand what the future holds for us.The Vision Revolution is a book that finally gives attention to what before has been largely neglected by other works on human visiona book that looks at the why.