Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See

Needed this book for a class and it was actually really good. I learned a lot of new information and got a good grade in the class.

Pros: Unique, deeply pondered perspectiveCons: Takes forever to get to the point.If you're a less is more type of person, this book is a skimmer for you. There is too much repetition and no condensed summarization of the point of such an excessive amount of information. Too many examples of one idea and not enough summarization of what the purpose of all this information is to the audience. It is written by a scientist for a scientist, not for a curious reader. Unless the casual reader does not mind spending a large amount of time learning several new terminologies and concepts they will most likely never use.

I enjoyed this book and return to read more. The book does a good job of touching on the latest research into vision and how the brain organizes visual information. I would hope this author would follow up with a deeper discussion of the role of neural networks and the methodology of how the scientist decodes the algorithms of visual information. This books information falls somewhat in the level of introductory information physiology for the advance undergraduate in the sciences but it certainly is interesting and informative for any reader with some technical background as he introduces some amazing ideas on how vision works. Diagrams are helpful and well thought out.

Interesting, provocative, and well-written. Probably more work than most people will give to a casual read but would be great for a high school or undergraduate seminar. Every art teacher would benefit from weaving these ideas into their courses. Many, many connections to other topics; artificial intelligence, jurisprudence, cultural competence, etc. A great first step on the road to understanding how we co-construct our reality.

I've read and re-read this book at least 4 times over the past five or six years. Each time I seem to gain new understanding into the processes that we use to sense the world around us. While this book clearly focuses on visual perception, the over-riding concept, that we construct the world we experience, applies to all our senses. While I doubt that I will make practical use of the specific rules he carefully lays out on how we actually make those visual constructions, I found the concepts fascinating. He writes clearly and presents excellent examples. I highly recommend the book and wish there were a follow-on with new and additional research in the area.

Everyone should read this book! It is positively amazing!How we "CREATE" what we see. Fabulous! Non technical. Would love to ask the author about a a million questions!!Highly recommended!

Eye opening! Brings fact and clarity to the subject of our ability to process things visually. How we see what we think we see differs from what we assume or were taught. Removes some of the fog from our understanding of how humans see things.

I took a class with Dr. Hoffman at the University of California, Irvine, and this book doesn't even scratch the surface of how smart this guy is. Dr. Hoffman showed us some of the mathematical equations he used to verify the theories in this book and they are flawless.

Only a couple of chapters in. Very thought provoking! I'm very glad I stumbled across this. I have to put it down sometimes to let the ideas purcolate.

Content very well written and this book really explains that any intelligence is not complete without visual IQ.

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