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1 online resource (xix, 400 pages) : illustrations, portrait |
| Contents |
Introduction: a trailer to the book -- An apology -- The problem -- Vision in action -- Illusions -- Damage to the system -- The brain -- The study of vision -- The first steps in seeing -- The eye -- The photoreceptors -- The retinal ganglion cells -- Beyond the eye -- the optic nerve -- The lateral geniculate nucleus -- Signalling changes -- Introduction -- A problem -- Retinal ganglion cells and receptive fields -- Receptive fields and image processing -- Some effects of retinal processing -- Conclusion -- To the cortex -- The primary visual cortex (aka V1, striate cortex, area 17) -- Orientation selectivity -- Organization of the primary visual cortex -- Simple cells -- Complex cells -- Hypercomplex cells -- Trigger features -- Face cells -- The grandmother cell hypothesis -- Beyond V1 -- the extrastriate areas -- Spatial vision -- Experiments on humans -- The tilt after-effect -- A neural explanation of the tilt after-effect -- Tilt-specific threshold elevation -- The size after-effect -- Simultaneous tilt and size illusions -- Size-specific threshold elevation -- Where in the brain do after-effects occur? -- Contrast sensitivity -- Peripheral vision -- Retinal versus real size -- Some visual illusions explained? -- Texture -- Colour vision -- Introduction -- What is colour, and why would you want to see it? -- The nature of light -- A single-cone system -- monochromatic vision -- A two-cone system -- dichromatic vision -- A three-cone system -- trichromatic vision -- Comparing activity in cones -- colour opponency -- Colour-opponent cells -- Two-colour vision systems -- Colour blindness -- Cortical processes in colour vision -- Colour constancy -- Back to the cortex -- Cerebral achromatopsia -- The perception of motion -- Two ways of seeing movement -- A motion detector -- The motion after-effect -- Speed -- Apparent motion -- Motion blindness and area MT (V5) -- How do we tell what moves an what stays still? Vection and stability -- Vection and vomit -- Conclusion -- The third dimension -- Introduction -- Stereoscopic vision -- The correspondence problem and random dot stereograms -- Physiological mechanisms and disparity -- Stereo-blindness -- Motion parallax -- Pictorial cues -- Size constancy, depth perception, and illusions -- Conclusions -- The development of vision -- Introduction -- Measuring a baby's vision -- Selective rearing experiments -- Problems of vision -- Putting things right -- Active versus passive vision -- Vision in old age -- Attention and neglect -- Introduction -- Moving attention -- Spot the difference -- change blindness -- Objects and space -- Visual search -- Feature integration theory -- Guided search -- Neglect -- The perception of faces -- The face as a special stimulus -- Just how good are we at recognizing faces? -- Feature configurations -- Recognizing individuals -- Physiology of face recognition -- Prosopagnosia -- Delusions -- Conclusions -- Vision and action -- "What" and "where" streams in vision -- Blindsight -- The superior colliculus route -- Balint-Holmes syndrome or optic ataxia -- Visual form agnosia -- Dissociation of perception and action -- Eye movements -- Saccadic suppression -- Eye movements in real tasks -- Visual search -- Doing "real world" tasks -- Conclusion -- How we know it might be so ... -- Anatomical techniques -- Recording techniques -- Microstimulation -- Lesioning -- Neuropsychology -- Psychophysics |
| Summary |
Why do things look blurry underwater? Why do people drive too fast in fog? How do you high-pass filter a cup of tea? What have mixer taps to do with colour vision?Basic Vision: An Introduction to Visual Perception demystifies the processes through which we see the world. Written by three authors with over 80 years of research and undergraduate teaching experience between them, it leads the reader step-by-step through the intricacies of visual processing, with full-colour illustrations on nearly every page. The writing style captures the excitement of recent research in neuroscience that has tr |
| Analysis |
Psychology |
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Visual perception |
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Physiological psychology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Vision -- Physiology
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Visual perception.
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Vision.
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Visual Perception
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Vision, Ocular
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visual perception.
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sight (sense)
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
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Vision
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Visual perception
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thompson, Peter, 1950- author.
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Troscianko, Tom, author.
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| ISBN |
9780191666124 |
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0191666122 |
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