Handbook of Experimental Phenomenology

Liliana Albertazzi is a Principal Investigator at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMEC), and Professor at the Department of Humanities of Trento University, Italy. Her research investigates phenomenal qualities, and the nature of perceptual space/time and visual operations. She has led a major international project to develop an accurate descriptive theory of appearances on an experimental basis. She is the editor of Perception Beyond Inference: The Information Content of Visual Processes (2011).

• About the Editor viiAbout the Contributors ixPreface xiiiExperimental Phenomenology: An Introduction 1Liliana AlbertazziPart I Linking Psychophysics and Qualities 37 1 Inferential and Ecological Theories of Visual Perception 39Joseph S. Lappin2 Public Objects and Private Qualia: The Scope and Limits of Psychophysics 71Donald D. Hoffman3 The Attribute of Realness and the Internal Organization of Perceptual Reality 91Rainer Mausfeld4 Multistable Visual Perception as a Gateway to the Neuronal Correlates of Phenomenal Consciousness: The Scope and Limits of Neuroscientifi c Analysis 119Theofanis I. Panagiotaropoulos and Nikos K. Logothetis5 Phenomenal Qualities and the Development of Perceptual Integration 145Mariann Hudák, Zoltan Jakab, and Ilona KovácsPart II Qualities in Space, Time, and Motion 1636 Surface Shape, the Science and the Looks 165Jan J. Koenderink7 Experimental Phenomenology of Visual 3D Space: Considerations from Evolution, Perception, and Philosophy 181Dhanraj Vishwanath8 Spatial and Form-Giving Qualities of Light 205Sylvia C. Pont9 Image Motion and the Appearance of Objects 223Katja Dörschner10 The Role of Stimulus Properties and Cognitive Processes in the Quality of the Multisensory Perception of Synchrony 243Argiro VatakisPart III Appearances 26511 Appearances From a Radical Standpoint 267Liliana Albertazzi12 How Attention Can Alter Appearances 291Peter U. Tse, Eric A. Reavis, Peter J. Kohler, Gideon P. Caplovitz, and Thalia Wheatley13 Illusion and Illusoriness: New Perceptual Issues and New Phenomena 317Baingio Pinna14 Qualitative Inference Rules for Perceptual Transparency 343Osvaldo Da Pos and Luigi Burigana15 The Perceptual Quality of Color 369Anya Hurlbert16 The Aesthetic Appeal of Visual Qualities 395Gert van Tonder and Branka SpeharPart IV Measurement and Qualities 41517 Psychophysical and Neural Correlates of the Phenomenology of Shape 417Irving Biederman18 What Are Intermediate-Level Visual Features? 437Steven W. Zucker19 Basic Colors and Image Features: The Case for an Analogy 449Lewis D. Griffin20 Measuring the Immeasurable: Quantitative Analyses of Perceptual Experiments 477Luisa Canal and Rocco Micciolo21 The Non-Accidentalness Principle for Visual Perception 499Agnès Desolneux, Lionel Moisan, and Jean-Michel MorelName Index 515Subject Index 529