Vision, an Optical User Interface. (July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Koenderink, Jan
• Is Part Of: Perception. Volume 48:Number 7(2019)
• Page Start: 545
• Page End: 601
• Publication Date: 2019-07
• Subjects: vision -- awareness -- user interface -- Gestalt -- psychogenesis -- local sign -- scale-space -- shape from X -- Umwelt; Perception -- Periodicals; Perception -- Periodicals; Perception; Periodicals; 153.705
• DOI: 10.1177/0301006619853758
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0301-0066

Abstract

I present a personal account of visual awareness, from a biological, that is, ethological and evolutionary perspective. The facts I select are mainly phenomenological, with a sprinkle of psychophysics, and a snuff of brain theory. This is because I consider visual awareness to be a phenomenological brute fact that has no equivalent in either physiology or cognitive science. My emphasis is on bare fundamentals and integration. I primarily aim at academic understanding.