Vision and Attention

✍ Scribed by Laurence R. Harris, Michael Jenkin (auth.), Michael Jenkin, Laurence Harris (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 324
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

It has become apparent that vision is not a passive process working on the retinal image like a film to record a perfect copy as the perception. Instead, higher-level cognitive processes such as expectancies, memories and experience play a critical, almost overriding role. This book is a review and summary of the tremendous advances that have been made in recent years on the effect of attention on visual perception. The book will appeal to vision scientists as well as to people involved in using visual processes in computer animations, display design or the sensory systems of machines. Physiologists and neuroscientists interested in any aspect of sensory or motor processes will also find this a very useful and broad-ranging volume.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Vision and Attention....Pages 1-17
Shifts of Attention and Saccades Are Very Similar. Are They Causally Linked?....Pages 19-39
Contrast Gain, Area Summation and Temporal Tuning in Primate Visual Cortex....Pages 41-62
Global Processes in Form Vision and Their Relationship to Spatial Attention....Pages 63-81
Visual Attention: The Active Vision Perspective....Pages 83-103
Complexity, Vision, and Attention....Pages 105-128
Motion-Disparity Interaction and the Scaling of Stereoscopic Disparity....Pages 129-150
Signal Detection and Attention in Systems Governed By Multiplicative Noise....Pages 151-167
Change Blindness: Implications for the Nature of Visual Attention....Pages 169-188
The Role of Expectations in Change Detection and Attentional Capture....Pages 189-207
Attention, Eye Movements, and Neurons: Linking Physiology and Behavior....Pages 209-232
Vision and Action in Virtual Environments: Modern Psychophysics in Spatial Cognition Research....Pages 233-252
Selective Feature-Based Attention Directed to a Pair of Lines: Psychophysical Evidence and a Psychophysical Model....Pages 253-280
Thoughts on Change Blindness....Pages 281-301
Back Matter....Pages 303-316

✦ Subjects

Ophthalmology; Human Physiology; Neurobiology; Neurosciences

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