The following are recent examples of the vision in vivo approach
and will be presented at a scheduled
laboratory meeting of the Vision Sciences Lab of Harvard University
on Tuesday, December 14th.
An increasingly common architectural entity is the horizontal metal form used to shield gas station pumps
from inclement weather. Typically the canopies are rectangular and supported by 2 or more vertical
columns of equal height. Our perception of the canopy and columns is generally veridical. However, an
interesting exception is a Sunoco station located in Clifton, NJ. where the actual shape of the canopy is not
rectangular. The erroneous perception of the canopy shape seems to have consequences for the
misperception of the height of the columns.
Several Manhattan clocks will be used to understand the
perceptual/cognitive processes involved in
everyday time telling.