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**RESEARCH GROUP IN PERCEPTION**

Friday, October 2, 1992   3pm in room 317 of 1 Spadina Crescent,
University of Toronto, St. George Campus


HIROSHI ONO (YORK UNIVERSITY)

"WILLIAM CHARLES WELLS AND BINOCULAR VISUAL DIRECTION:
A BICENTENNIAL TRIBUTE."

Abstract:
While the American Psychological Association is having its
centennial celebration this year, visual scientists can have a
bicentennial celebration of the publication of Wells's book in
1792.  The book, "An essay upon single vision with two eyes;
together with experiments and observations on several other
subjects in optics," formally states the principles of visual
direction 87 years before Hering, who is usually credited with
stating them.  Wheatstone praised Wells as an acute writer but
rejected his theory and perhaps because of this Wells's work
remains unrecognized.  In tribute to Wells, I will present my
published data collected while studying Hering's principles and
explain them in terms of Wells's propositions. and then compare
Wells's three propositions concerning localization of objects in
space to Hering's and recent statements of the principles of
visual direction.  Then, I will argue that we should now
recognized Wells for his pioneering work in vision.



Everyone is welcome to attend. Donut holes will be provided.

For more information, please contact Allison Sekuler at:
978-1537 or sekuler@psych.toronto.edu