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GEOMETRY AND SPACE

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Overview

Analysis of the statistical relationship between the geometry of retinal images and the corresponding geometry of the real-world sources can explain perceptions of form, distance and depth. Just as lightness, brightness and color sensations are determined by statistical information about the link between retinal images and their possible sources, so the perception of angles is evidently determined by the empirical possible sources of geometrical stimuli, as several demonstrations here indicate.

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