Visual Perception
The Handbook of Physiological Optics covered such topics as the physical characteristics of light, the crystalline lens, the cornea, refraction in the eye, mechanisms of accommodation, and the retina. It also contained chapters on illusions, the pe
The handbook also covered methodological topics. He invented the ophthalmoscope, an instrument that permits an observer to examine the retina of anotherís eye.
He emphasized "unconscious inferences" in perception, built up through countless repetitions of stimulus and response events.
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