Perception & Senses

Vision

Fundamentals

  • Foveal vs peripheral vision; scanning via saccades.
  • Preattentive features: color, size, orientation, motion.
  • Gestalt principles: proximity, similarity, continuity, closure.

References

  • Ware, C. — Information Visualization: Perception for Design.
  • Treisman (1985) — Preattentive processing in vision.
  • Palmer (1999) — Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology.
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