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Author Snowden, Robert J.

Title Basic vision : an introduction to visual perception / Robert Snowden, Peter Thompson, Tom Troscianko.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2012]
©2012

Item Status

Edition Revised edition.
Description 1 online resource (xix, 400 pages) : illustrations, portrait
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: a trailer to the book -- An apology -- Problem -- Vision in action -- Illusions -- Damage to the system -- Brain -- Study of vision -- First steps in seeing -- Eye -- Photoreceptors -- Retinal ganglion cells -- Beyond the eye -- the optic nerve -- 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 -- 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 -- Grandmother cell hypothesis -- Beyond V1 -- the extrastriate areas -- Spatial vision -- Experiments on humans -- Tilt after-effect -- A neural explanation of the tilt after-effect -- Tilt-specific threshold elevation -- 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? -- 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 -- Perception of motion -- Two ways of seeing movement -- A motion detector -- 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 -- Third dimension -- Introduction -- Stereoscopic vision -- Correspondence problem and random dot stereograms -- Physiological mechanisms and disparity -- Stereo-blindness -- Motion parallax -- Pictorial cues -- Size constancy, depth perception, and illusions -- Conclusions -- 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 -- Perception of faces -- 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 -- 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.
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Subject Vision -- Physiology.
Vision.
Physiology.
Visual perception.
Visual perception.
Visual Perception.
Vision, Ocular.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Thompson, Peter, 1950-
Troscianko, Tom.
Other Form: Print version: Snowden, Robert J. Basic vision. Revised edition 9780199572021 (DLC) 2011943527 (OCoLC)777146618
ISBN 9780191666124 (electronic book)
0191666122 (electronic book)
9780199572021
019957202X