Visual Perception: Physiology, Psychology, & Ecology

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Psychology Press, 2003 - History - 483 pages

This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in vision. In Part I, the treatment of visual physiology has been extensively revised with an updated account of retinal processing, a new section explaining the principles of spatial and temporal filtering which underlie discussions in later chapters, and an up-to-date account of the primate visual pathway.
Part II contains four largely new chapters which cover recent psychophysical evidence and computational model of early vision: edge detection, perceptual grouping, depth perception, and motion perception. The models discussed are extensively integrated with physiological evidence. All other chapters in Parts II, III, and IV have also been thoroughly updated.

 

Contents

Light and Eyes
3
The Neurophysiology of
25
Visual Pathways in the Brain
43
Approaches to the Psychology of Visual
77
Images Filters and Features
85
Perceptual Organisation
119
Seeing a 3D World
169
The Computation of Image
209
Conclusions
264
Introduction to the Ecological
301
Optic Flow and Locomotion
315
Vision and the Timing
345
Perception of the Social World
367
Contrasting Theories of Visual
405
References
419
Online Resources for Perception
455

A hierarchy of processing in the motion energy
227
Secondorder and longrange motions
240
The integration of motion
247
Motion from feature tracking
253

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