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Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013], p2013
Language
English
Description
Wheaton College professor Rolf Nelson examines the human visual system, from basic processes like perceiving color and shape to recognizing and categorizing objects to self-awareness. Professor Nelson also demonstrates how the human brain constructs a representation of the world replete with meaning, a task beyond the capability of any current computer.
4) Zoom
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A wordless picture book presents a series of scenes, each one from farther away, showing, for example, a girl playing with toys which is actually a picture on a magazine cover, which is part of a sign on a bus, and so on.
Author
Edition
Print book : Juvenile audience : English : First edition
Language
English
Description
Those studying art spend a long time learning about how to create the right perspective. Depending on what's around a tree or animal, the main part of the image can look different, bigger, smaller, closer, or farther away. It's really just a trick. Readers learn how the brain is affected by these optical illusions through accessible content as well as many examples they'll have fun deciphering.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The concepts of "same" and "different" are important for early learners to understand, and they are the focal point of this fun and helpful book. Bright cartoon dinosaurs can be found on each page, alongside easy-to-follow text asking readers to question which dinosaur is different from the others and explaining why. The strong correlation between illustrations and text allows for the development of vocabulary skills. This book presents young readers...
12) Color zoo
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st board book ed.
Language
English
Description
Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.
13) The mind's eye
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Includes stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and faculties: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, and the sense of sight. This book is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation, and it provides a whole new perspective...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A quarter of a century after her first book, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin-the "anthropologist from Mars," as Oliver Sacks dubbed her-transforms our understanding of the different ways our brains are wired. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously understood, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the purest "object visualizers" like Grandin herself,...
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