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Basic vision : an introduction to visual perception /
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 wit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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| Edición: | Revised edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.