Ideal for courses in vision, perception, and cognitive science, this unique text conveys the excitement and promise of the field of visual cognition while emphasizing its vital relationship to cognitive science in general, exploring central philosophical and psychological issues such as imagination, consciousness, and perceptions of time.
Instructors using The Thinking Eye, the Seeing Brain will have access to lecture-ready PowerPoint slides of art from the text, each of them carefully annotated by Professor Enns.

James T. Enns (Ph.D. Princeton University) is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of British Columbia in the department of psychology and the graduate program in neuroscience. Former associate editor for the journals Psychological Science and Visual Cognition, he has edited two research volumes on the development of attention, coauthored a textbook on perception, and published numerous articles on vision, attention, and cognitive science.