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Recovery from Early Blindness R. L. Gregory and Jean G. Wallace. A case study of a man effectively blind from birth who regained sight following corneal graft when he was over 50 years of age.	DOWNLOADS pdf 550KB word 500KB
Border Locking and the Café Wall Illusion Richard L Gregory, Priscilla Heard Results of experiments with the Café Wall illusion.	html 170KB pdf 336KB word 184KB
Visual dissociations of movement, position and stereo depth: some phenomenal phenomena Richard L Gregory, Priscilla Heard (Reproduced by kind permission of the Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology WEB SITE)	html 170KB pdf 180KB word 180KB
Perceptual illusions and brain models Richard L Gregory This paper develops the notion of perceptual hypotheses and also raises questions concerning the distinction to be made between ‘analogue’ and ‘digital’ in the context of the brain.	html 160KB pdf 343KB word 182KB
Knowledge in Perception and Illusion Richard L Gregory Visual perceptions are regarded as similar to predictive hypotheses of science, but are psychologically projected into external space and accepted as our most immediate reality. Visual illusions can provide evidence of object knowledge and working rules for vision, but only when the phenomena are explained and classified. A tentative classification is presented, in terms of appearances and kinds of causes.	pdf 233KB word 120KB
Brainy Mind Richard L Gregory Perceptions are predictive hypotheses, based on knowledge stored from the past. As perceptions may be 90% memory, how is the present moment distinguished from memory and anticipation?	pdf 95KB word 60KB
Perceptual filling in of artificially induced scotomas in human vision V. S. Ramachandran & R. L Gregory Perceptual ‘filling in’ is an active visual process that probably involves creating an actual neural representation of the surround rather than merely ignoring the absence of information.	pdf 370KB word 122KB
A technique for minimising the effects of atmospheric disturbance on photographic telescopes Richard L Gregory The development of a telescope camera for getting improved pictures of the moon, the planets and the stars.	html 180KB pdf 614KB word 205KB
The curious eye of Copilia R. L. Gregory, H. E. Ross and N. Moray Copilia, a copepod living in the bay of Naples, has a curious eye - possibly a single channel scanning eye.	pdf 200KB word 76KB
The effect of touch on a visually ambiguous three-dimensional figure Richard L Gregory	(PDF, 105K)
Hands-On Science Richard L Gregory, Written for the Vatican Pontifical Academy Of Science Conference (Casino Pio Iv, 19-21 November 2001)	(PDF, 55K)
Mirror cells in talking parrots? Richard L Gregory, Originally published in Perception	(PDF, 30K)
Adventures of a Maverick Richard L Gregory, March 7th 2000	(PDF, 55K)
Brainy Mind Richard L Gregory, BMJ Christmas Piece, 17th November 1998	(PDF, 125K)
A Student’s View of Cambridge Philosophy Post-Wittgenstein - 1947-9 Richard L Gregory, 1 March 2004	(PDF, 30K)
Seeing after blindness - The blind leading the sighted Richard L Gregory, Nature Vol. 430 August 2004	(PDF, 35K)
Images of Mind in Brain Richard L Gregory, Word and Image, Vol 21 April-June, 2005	(PDF, 620K)
Perception Editorials Neuro-archeology, 2000, vol 29 (PDF, 85K) Ambiguity of `ambiguity', 2000, vol 29 (PDF, 95K) Seeing oneself, 2001, vol 30 (PDF, 45K) Curious asymmetries. Part 1, 2004, vol 33 (PDF, 75K) Curious asymmetries. Part 2, 2004, vol 33 (PDF, 160K) Perception beyond physics?, 2004, vol 33 (PDF, 50K)

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February 2006.