Visuospatial thinking includes thinking about space at the smaller scale of objects and at the
larger scale of environments. It also includes situations in which we use visuospatial …

The world of perception is multisensory. Even a simple task such as judging the position of a
light in a dark room depends not only on vision but also on sensory signals about the …

Facial information is a powerful channel for human-to-human communication.
Characteristically, faces can be defined as biological objects that are four-dimensional (4D) …

Visually recognizing objects at different orientations and distances has been assumed to
depend either on extracting from the retinal image a viewpoint–invariant, typically three …

It has been proposed that object perception can proceed through different routes, which can
be situated on a continuum ranging from complete viewpoint-dependency to complete …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses whether the spatial content of formal Euclidean
geometry is universally present in the way humans perceive space or whether it is a mental …

The mental-rotation task is a well known research paradigm to examine cognitive processes
of mental imaging and mental manipulation (Shepard & Metzler, 1971). So far, research has …

The processing required to categorize faces and animals is not only rapid but also
remarkably resistant to inversion. It has been suggested that this sort of categorization …

Experimental psycho-aesthetics—the science aimed at understanding the factors that
determine aesthetic experience—is reviewed briefly as background to describe the …

Geometry defines entities that can be physically realized in space, and our knowledge of
abstract geometry may therefore stem from our representations of the physical world. Here …