Basic vision : an introduction to visual perception

Basic vision : an introduction to visual perception /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snowden, Robert J.
Other Authors: Thompson, Peter, 1950-, Troscianko, Tom
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Edition:Rev. ed.
Subjects:
Visual perception
Visual Perception
Vision, Ocular
Table of Contents:
  • 0. Introduction: a trailer to the book. An apology
  • The problem
  • Vision in action
  • Illusions
  • Damage to the system
  • The brain
  • The study of vision
  • 1. The first steps in seeing. The eye
  • The photoreceptors
  • The retinal ganglion cells
  • Beyond the eye - the optic nerve
  • The lateral geniculate nucleus
  • 2. Signalling changes. Introduction
  • A problem-- Retinal ganglion cells and receptive fields
  • Receptive fields and image processing
  • Some effects of retinal processing
  • Conclusion
  • 3. 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 VI - the extrastriate areas
  • 4. 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
  • 5. 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
  • 6. The perception of motion. Two ways of seeing movement
  • a motion detector
  • The motion after-effect
  • Speed
  • Apparent motion
  • Motion blindness and are MT (V5)
  • How do we tell what moves and what stays still?
  • vection and stability
  • vection and vomit
  • conclusion
  • 7. The third dimension. Introduction
  • Stereoscopic vision. Red-greeen anaglyphs. Stereoscopes. Free fusion
  • The correspondence problem and random dot stereograms
  • Physiological mechanisms and disparity
  • Stereo-blindness
  • Motion parallax
  • Pictorial cues. Occlusion or interposition. Size cues. Shading and shadows. Aerial perspective
  • Size constancy, depth perception, and illusions
  • Conclusions
  • 8. The development of vision. Introduction
  • Measuring a baby's vision. Spatial vision. Feature detection. Motion perception. Colour. Depth perception and stereopsis. Development of face perception. Summary
  • Selective rearing experiments
  • Prlblems of vision
  • Putting things right
  • Active versus passive vision
  • Vision in old age
  • 9. Attention and neglect. Introduction
  • Moving attention
  • Spot the difference - change blindness
  • Objects and space
  • Visual search
  • Feature integration theory
  • Guided search
  • Neglect
  • 10. The perception of faces. The face as a special stimulus
  • Just how good are we at recognizing faces?
  • Feature configurations
  • Recognizing individuals. Caricatures. Expressions
  • Physiology of face recogniiton. Identity. Expressions
  • Prosopagnosia
  • Delusions
  • Conclusions
  • 11. Vision and action. 'What' and 'where' streams in vision
  • Blindsight
  • The superior colliculus route
  • Bálint-Holmes syndrome or optic ataxia
  • Visual form agnosia
  • Dissociation of perception and action
  • Eye movements
  • Saccadic supporession
  • Eye movements in real tasks. Reading
  • Visual search
  • Doing 'real world' tasks
  • Conclusion
  • 12. How we know it might be so ... Anatomical techniques. Staining techniques
  • Recording techniques. Single-cell recording
  • Visually evoked potentials. Magnetoencephalography (MEG). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Optical imaging. Positron emission tomography (PET)
  • Microstimulation
  • Lesioning. Temporary lesions
  • Neuropsychology
  • Psychophysics.

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