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= Important Contributors To The Field of Perception Their Keys Findings  =



Richard Gregory Richard Gregory was a a British psychologist and Professor of Neuroscience at University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. While Gregory is now deceased he research continues to live as his various theories and research finding are used by visual perception researchers today (Richard Gregory, n.d.). Gregory's most outstanding contribution to the field of visual perception was his theory of inferred perception which used top-down processing (Richard Gregory, n.d.). He is also famous for his cafe wall illusion link found [|here] where the horizontal lines on the wall seem to be at varying angles event though they are parallel (Cafe Wall Illusion, n.d.). Don't believe me? Click [|here].





[|James Gibson] James Gibson was an American psychologist who earned his PhD from Princeton's University Department of Psychology. Gibson studied in the field of optics, discovering the optical flow theory and coining the word affordance which explains movement in relation to stagnant versus moving object within sight (James J. Gibson, n.d.; McConnell, 2009). Gibson argues for the bottom-up processing model (McConnell, 2009). Considered to be one of the most influential men in psychology in the 20th century, Gibson's work in Perception of the Visual Field rejected the popular view of behaviorism and introduced the idea of information processes gathered from the ambient outside world (James J Gibson, n.d.).



[|Anne Treisman] Anne Treisman is an American psychologist who currents studies at Princeton University Department of Psychology (Hotchkiss, 2003). Her contributions in object perception, visual attention and memory has made her one of the most influential people in psychology in the twenty first century (Anne Treisman, n.d.). Her publication on Feature Integration Theory had impacted the world both inside and outside of the world of psychology. Due to her great achievement she has been awarded the Grawemeyer Award for psychology in 2009, William James Fellow Award in 2002 and the National Medal of Science in 2013 (Hotchkiss, 2003).

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Important Contributions to Illusions

[|Steven Franconeri] Steven Franconeri is an assistant professor at Midwestern University and has done research in visual cognition and created theories on why the way in which we visual data effects the way we gain knowledge (Meyer, 2012). His research explains why our minds automatically perceive squares A and B as different shades of grey even though they are exactly the same color, as noted on the right (Visual Cognition, n.d.). He is among the more recent contributors to the field of perception illusion and has a promising future by adding a vast amount of knowledge into the field of brain processing in the near future.





[|Donald Hoffman] Donald Hoffman is a professor at the University of California in the department of Cognitive Sciences.With a particular interest in Visual Intelligence, has done a vast amount of research in the field and found that our brains create what they seen even if it is not visually there (Hoffman, 2005). An example of this is the presence of a red disk in an area with four red perpend icular lines. If you add an extending black line to the perpendicular red lines your mind automatically creates a red disk (Hoffman, 2005).



[|Akiyoshi Kitaoka] Akiyoshi Kitaoka is the professor in the psychology department at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. He has done a vast amount of research by studying visual perception, illusion and 3D motions (Kitaoka, n.d.). He has currently developed an illusion called the rotating snakes where the image appears to twist around even though it is stagnant (Akiyoshi's Illusion Page, 2002). While Kitaoka is still on the verge of his most promising research, his future in the field of illusion is promising



Video Reference // Interview with Anne Treisman, winner of the 2009 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology [Video file]. (n.d.). // // Retrieved from []  //