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The Image: Seeing More and Seeing Less Than Is There
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 78, Number 4, Winter 2011
- pp. 1263-1274
- 10.1353/sor.2011.0064
- Article
- Additional Information
Most of us generally assume, without much reflection, that our visual experience is a faithful representation of the scenes at which we are looking, and that our eyes function much like a camera, sending images of those scenes to our brain, which receives them and produces our perceptual experience. But this, as it turns out, is a mistaken assumption. Some of the reasons why are discussed