Visual Perception. The Neurophysiological Foundations

✍ Scribed by Lothar Spillmann, John S. Werner (eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 531
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the main facts and theories that guide contemporary research on visual perception. While the chapters cover virtually all areas of visual science, from philosophical foundations to computational algorithms, and from photoreceptor processes to neuronal networks, no attempt has been made to provide an exhaustive treatment of these topics. Rather, researchers from such diverse disciplines as psychology, neurophysiology, anatomy, and clinical vision sciences have worked together to review some of the most important correlations between perceptual Read more...

Abstract: This book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the main facts and theories that guide contemporary research on visual perception. While the chapters cover virtually all areas of visual science, from philosophical foundations to computational algorithms, and from photoreceptor processes to neuronal networks, no attempt has been made to provide an exhaustive treatment of these topics. Rather, researchers from such diverse disciplines as psychology, neurophysiology, anatomy, and clinical vision sciences have worked together to review some of the most important correlations between perceptual

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
CONTRIBUTORS, Pages xi-xiii
PREFACE, Page xv
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, Page xvii, Lothar Spillmann, John S. Werner
1 - INTRODUCTION, Pages 1-4, Lothar Spillmann, John S. Werner
2 - RELATING NEURAL MECHANISMS TO VISUAL PERCEPTION: Historical and Philosophical Considerations, Pages 5-9, Gerald Westheimer
3 - THE DOMAIN OF VISUAL SCIENCE, Pages 11-21, Davida Y. Teller
4 - INTERSPECIES COMPARISONS IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN VISUAL PERCEPTION, Pages 23-52, M.L.J. Crawford, Richard A. Andersen, Randolph Blake, Gerald H. Jacobs, Christa Neumeyer
5 - THE CONTROL OF VISUAL SENSITIVITY: Receptoral and Postreceptoral Processes, Pages 53-101, Jan Walraven, Christina Enroth-Cugell, Donald C. Hood, Donald I.A. MacLeod, Julie L. Schnapf
6 - PARALLEL PROCESSING OF VISUAL INFORMATION, Pages 103-128, Peter Lennie, Colwyn Trevarthen, David Van Essen, Heinz Wässle
7 - THE PERCEPTION OF BRIGHTNESS AND DARKNESS: RELATIONS TO NEURONAL RECEPTIVE FIELDS, Pages 129-161, Adriana Fiorentini, Günter Baumgartner, Svein Magnussen, Peter H. Schiller, James P. Thomas
8 - COLOR PERCEPTION: Retina to Cortex, Pages 163-204, Eberhart Zrenner, Israel Abramov, Munehira Akita, Alan Cowey, Margaret Livingstone, Arne Valberg
9 - THE PERCEPTION OF MOTION, Pages 205-230, Robert Sekuler, Stuart Anstis, Oliver J. Braddick, Thomas Brandt, J. Anthony Movshon, Guy Orban
10 - THE PERCEPTION OF FORM: Retina to Striate Cortex, Pages 231-272, Hugh R. Wilson, Dennis Levi, Lamberto Maffei, Jyrki Rovamo, Russell DeValois
11 - FORM PERCEPTION AND ATTENTION: Striate Cortex and Beyond, Pages 273-316, Anne Treisman, Patrick Cavanagh, Burkhart Fischer, V.S. Ramachandran, Rüdiger von der Heydt
12 - THE PERCEPTION OF STEREODEPTH AND STEREOMOTION: Cortical Mechanisms, Pages 317-347, David Regan, John P. Frisby, Gian F. Poggio, Clifton M. Schor, Christopher W. Tyler
13 - THE DEVELOPMENT OF VISION AND VISUAL PERCEPTION, Pages 349-379, Richard C. Van Sluyters, Janette Atkinson, Martin S. Banks, Richard M. Held, K.-Peter Hoffmann, Carla J. Shatz
14 - NORMAL AND ABNORMAL MECHANISMS OF VISION: Visual Disorders and Visual Deprivation, Pages 381-416, Anthony J. Adams, Ivan Bodis-Wollner, Jay M. Enoch, Marc Jeannerod, Donald E. Mitchell
15 - COMPUTATIONAL THEORIES OF VISUAL PERCEPTION, Pages 417-448, Robert Shapley, Terrence Caelli, Stephen Grossberg, Michael Morgan, Ingo Rentschler
16 - BRAIN, PERCEPTION, AND MIND: A Tribute to Richard Jung, Donald M. MacKay, and Hans-Lukas Teuber, Pages 449-463, Otto D. Creutzfeldt
REFERENCES, Pages 465-519
INDEX, Pages 521-531