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Understanding Vision
Glyn W. Humphreys (Edited by), G Humphreys (Author)
9780631179092, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 3 September 1992
328 pages
25 x 20 x 1.5 cm, 0.68 kg
Over the past 15 years there have been considerable advances in understanding visual processing. These advances have been fuelled by such developments as, among others, the use of powerful computing systems that enable processing algorithms to be carried out in real time, the application of experimental paradigms developed with normal observers to provide more accurate analyses of patients with impaired vision, and the development of new learning algorithms that can be applied in artificial neural networks. The study of vision is a study in which researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds - computer science, neuropsychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence - can usefully cooperate and share the research results and developments from the individual fields. Indeed, it is likely that future advances will depend on just such interdisciplinary collaborations. "Understanding Vision" brings together leading researchers from the different disciplines. The contributors attempt to provide a state-of-the-art review of work being carried out in their field, together with a discussion of how this work fits in to the broader perspective of vision research.
List of Contributors vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Constructing the Perception of Surfaces from Multiple Cues 2 Visual Analysis and Representation of Spatial Relations 3 Modern Theories of Gestalt Perception 4 Thinking Visually 5 Perceiving and Recognizing Faces 6 The Breakdown Approach to Visual Perception: Neuropsychological Studies of Object Recognition 7 Mechanisms which Mediate Discrimination of 2D Spatial Patterns in Distributed Images 8 The Analysis of 3D Shape: Psychophysical Principles and Neural Mechanisms Identification of Disoriented Objects: A Dual-systems Theory Surface Layout from Retinal Flow Neural Facades: Visual Representations of Static and Moving Form-and-Color-and-Depth References 272 Index 305
GLYN W. HUMPHREYS 1
KENT A. STEVENS 7
ROGER J. WATT 19
STEPHEN E. PALMER 39
KRIS N. KIRBY AND STEPHEN M. KOSSLYN 71
VICKI BRUCE 87
GLYN W. HUMPHREYS, M. JANE RIDDOCH, AND MURIEL BOUCART 104
KEITH H. RUDDOCK 126
ANDREW J. PARKER, CHRIS CHRISTOU, BRUCE G. CUMMING, ELIZABETH B. JOHNSTON, MICHAEL J. HAWKEN, AND ANDREW ZISSERMAN 143
PIERRE JOLICOEUR 180
MIKE HARRIS, TOM FREEMAN, AND GLEN WILLIAMS 199
STEPHEN GROSSBERG 232
Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]
