Brain Mechanisms and Spatial Vision

✍ Scribed by David N. Lee, David S. Young (auth.), David J. Ingle, Marc Jeannerod, David N. Lee (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 468
• Series: NATO ASI Series 21
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains chapters derived from a N. A. T. O. Advanced Study Institute held in June 1983. As the director of this A. S. I. it was my hope that some of the e1ectrophysiologists could express the potentialities of their work for perceptual theory, and that some perceptionists could speculate on the underlying "units" of perception in a way that would engage the imagination of physio­ logists. The reader will have to be the judge of whether this was achieved, or whether such a psychophysiological inter1ingua is still overly idealistic. It is clear that after the revolution prec~pitated by Hube1 and Weisel in understanding of visual cortical neurons we still have only a foggy idea of the behavioral output of any particular species of cortical detector. It was therefore particularly unfortunate that two persons who have made great strides in correlating interesting facets of cat cortical physio­ logy with human psychophysics (Max Cynader and Martin Regan of Dalhousie University) were unable to attend this meeting. Never­ theless, a number of new and challenging ideas regarding both spatial perception and cortical mechanisms are represented in this volume, and it is hoped that the reader will remember not only the individual demonstrations but the critical questions posed by the apposition of the two different collections of experimental facts. David Ingle April 1984 VII TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE V D. N. Lee and D. S. Young Visual Timing of Interceptive Action 1 J. J.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Visual Timing of Interceptive Action....Pages 1-30
Space, Form and Optical Deformations....Pages 31-58
Extraction of Higher Order Derivatives of the Optical Velocity Vector Field: Limitations Imposed By Biological Hardware....Pages 59-71
The Analysis of Three-Dimensional Structure from Moving Images....Pages 73-93
Motion Parallax and the Perception of Three-Dimensional Surfaces....Pages 95-111
The Development of Sensitivity of Kenetic, Binocular and Pictorial Depth Information in Human Infants....Pages 113-145
Visual Experience and the Development of Depth Perception....Pages 147-174
Human Sensory-Motor Adaptation to the Terrestrial Force Environment....Pages 175-209
Visual Stabilization During Head Movement....Pages 211-227
Action-Oriented Approaches to Visuo-Spatial Brain Functions....Pages 229-258
Disturbances of Stereopsis by Brain Damage....Pages 259-278
The Posterior Parietal Area as a Spatial Generator....Pages 279-298
Static versus Kinetic Visual Cues for the Processing of Spatial Relationships....Pages 299-330
Behavioural and Neurophysiological Correlates of Visual Movement Deprivation in the Cat....Pages 331-369
Velocity Tuned Cortical Cells and Human Velocity Discrimination....Pages 371-388
Visual Cortical Processing: Texture Sensitivity and Relative Motion....Pages 389-414
Neural Mechanisms for Detecting Object Motion and Figure-Ground Boundaries, Contrasted with Self-Motion Detecting Systems....Pages 415-449
Perceptual Theory and Sensory Substitution....Pages 451-465
Back Matter....Pages 467-470

✦ Subjects

Psychology, general; Neurology; Ophthalmology