The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision

Martha J. Farah (Author)

9780631214038, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 7 April 2000

416 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.572 kg

"This is an outstanding overview of an exciting frontier of research on the mind. Farah has a gift for ingenious and original syntheses of complicated research topics, which makes this book an invaluable resource for anyone interested in how the brain lets us see," Steven Pinker, Professor, MIT, and author of How the Mind Works and Words and Rules

"Farah’s book gives a comprehensive account of the cognitive neuroscience of vision, filtered through the judgment and enlivened by the comments of one of its best-known contributors. An excellent and lively survey to interest and inform both students and researchers." Anne Treisman, Princeton University

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision begins by introducing the reader to the anatomy of the eye and visual cortex and then proceeds to discuss image and representation, face recognition, printed word recognition, visual sematic memory and visual attention and perception.

1. Early Vision.

2. From Local To Global Image Representation.

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]