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- ItemThe Multisensory World of Walking and the Tuning of Perception(Swarthmore College, 2007-04-10) Durgin, Frank H.What is perception for? Here Frank Durgin argues that perceptual systems work very hard to improve the precision of perceptual discrimination -- to the point that the metric accuracy of perception is often sacrificed in favor of precision.
- ItemWhy Things Look As They Do: Illusion and Reality in Perception(Swarthmore College, 2013-02-12) Durgin, Frank H.Frank's talk uses examples from his work and others to discuss the question: If perception is so important for survival and for controlling everyday actions, how can our perceptions be so wrong?