Visual Perception

Nicholas WadePsychology
Visual Perception

Author: Nicholas Wade

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 1841692034

Category: Psychology

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This work covers the perception of location, motion and object recognition, and places the study of vision in its historical context. The machinery of vision is also described.

Visual Perception

Vicki BrucePsychology
Visual Perception

Author: Vicki Bruce

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 9781136917141

Category: Psychology

Page: 502

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This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in vision. In Part I, the treatment of visual physiology has been extensively revised with an updated account of retinal processing, a new section explaining the principles of spatial and temporal filtering which underlie discussions in later chapters, and an up-to-date account of the primate visual pathway. Part II contains four largely new chapters which cover recent psychophysical evidence and computational model of early vision: edge detection, perceptual grouping, depth perception, and motion perception. The models discussed are extensively integrated with physiological evidence. All other chapters in Parts II, III, and IV have also been thoroughly updated.

Visual Perception Part 1

Susana Martinez-CondePsychology
Visual Perception Part 1

Author: Susana Martinez-Conde

Publisher: Elsevier

ISBN: 0080466087

Category: Psychology

Page: 340

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This book presents a collection of articles reflecting state-of-the-art research in visual perception, specifically concentrating on neural correlates of perception. Each section addresses one of the main topics in vision research today. Volume 1 Fundamentals of Vision: Low and Mid-Level Processes in Perception covers topics from receptive field analyses to shape perception and eye movements. A variety of methodological approaches are represented, including single-neuron recordings, fMRI and optical imaging, psychophysics, eye movement characterization and computational modelling. The contributions will provide the reader with a valuable perspective on the current status of vision research, and more importantly, with critical insight into future research directions and the discoveries yet to come. · Provides a detailed breakdown of the neural and psychophysical bases of Perception · Presents never-before-published original discoveries · Includes multiple full-color illustrations

Social Psychology of Visual Perception

Emily BalcetisPsychology
Social Psychology of Visual Perception

Author: Emily Balcetis

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 9781136945533

Category: Psychology

Page: 351

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This volume synthesizes social, cognitive, ecological, evolutionary, & neuroscience research, showing that the way in which people perceive the world changes with their cognitions, emotions, goals, motivations, culture, & other factors traditionally considered exclusive to social, personality, & cognitive psychology.

Theories of Visual Perception

Ian E. GordonPsychology
Theories of Visual Perception

Author: Ian E. Gordon

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 9781135424299

Category: Psychology

Page: 271

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A clear critical account of the major approaches to understanding visual perception. It explains why approaches to theories of visual perception differ so widely and places each theory into its historical and philosophical context.

Visual Perception Problems in Children with AD/HD, Autism, and Other Learning Disabilities

Lisa A. KurtzEducation
Visual Perception Problems in Children with AD/HD, Autism, and Other Learning Disabilities

Author: Lisa A. Kurtz

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

ISBN: 9781843108269

Category: Education

Page: 110

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This book provides an overview of vision problems in children with developmental disabilities such as AD/HD and specific learning disabilities. It is appropriate for parents and professionals alike and offers non-technical explanations of how vision difficulties are screened for and advice on where to seek appropriate professional care.

Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics Perspective

William ThompsonComputers
Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics Perspective

Author: William Thompson

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN: 9781568814650

Category: Computers

Page: 552

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This book provides an introduction to human visual perception suitable for readers studying or working in the fields of computer graphics and visualization, cognitive science, and visual neuroscience. It focuses on how computer graphics images are generated, rather than solely on the organization of the visual system itself; therefore, the text provides a more direct tie between image generation and the resulting perceptual phenomena. It covers such topics as the perception of material properties, illumination, the perception of pictorial space, image statistics, perception and action, and spatial cognition.

Visual Perception

Isak L. NilssonVisual perception
Visual Perception

Author: Isak L. Nilsson

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

ISBN: STANFORD:36105131760493

Category: Visual perception

Page: 376

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In psychology, visual perception is the ability to interpret information from visible light reaching the eyes. The resulting perception is also known as eyesight, sight or vision. The various physiological components involved in vision are referred to collectively as the visual system. The visual system in humans allows individuals to assimilate information from the environment. The act of seeing starts when the lens of the eye focuses an image of its surroundings onto a light-sensitive membrane in the back of the eye, called the retina. The retina is actually part of the brain that is isolated to serve as a transducer for the conversion of patterns of light into neuronal signals. The lens of the eye focuses light on the photoreceptive cells of the retina, which detect the photons of light and respond by producing neural impulses. These signals are processed in a hierarchical fashion by different parts of the brain, from the retina to the lateral geniculate nucleus, to the primary and secondary visual cortex of the brain. The major problem in visual perception is that what people see is not simply a translation of retinal stimuli (i.e., the image on the retina). Thus people interested in perception have long struggled to explain what visual processing does to create what we actually see. This book presents leading edge research from around the globe on this field.

Linking Perception and Cognition

Michela C. TaccaCognition
Linking Perception and Cognition

Author: Michela C. Tacca

Publisher: Frontiers E-books

ISBN: 9782889191529

Category: Cognition

Page: 98

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"Perception and cognition are tightly related. As our primary mode of contact with the world, perception is the informational and causal foundation of our cognitive processes; it is fundamental to our empirical thinking, believing, and action planning. Traditional accounts of the mind consider perception and cognition to be distinct, yet highly interrelated, systems. Much interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical work, from cognitive scientists and philosophers, has attempted to elucidate the complex relations holding among these systems, suggesting the existence not only of influences of perception on cognition but also vice versa. However, many questions are left unanswered. Given that perception is a guide to our thinking about and acting upon the world appropriately, the two systems must be able to 'talk' to one another; information carried by perception must be of a form adequate to be 'taken in' by our various cognitive systems. The question arises: What kinds of structural similarities must hold between perceptual and cognitive representations for such 'communication' to be possible? And how exactly do perceptual and cognitive representations interact? Some researchers have argued that the links between perception and cognition are so tight as to instill doubt as to the significance of the distinction between the two systems in the first place. Yet others insist that perception and cognition remain distinct. The aim of this Research Topic is to deepen our understanding of the kinds of interaction among perception and cognition and of the nature of the representational structures that would enable such interaction." -- Provided by publisher.

Colour Perception

Rainer MausfeldPsychology
Colour Perception

Author: Rainer Mausfeld

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780191660429

Category: Psychology

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Colour has long been a source of fascination to both scientists and philosophers. In one sense, colours are in the mind of the beholder, in another sense they belong to the external world. Colours appear to lie on the boundary where we have divided the world into 'objective' and 'subjective' events. They represent, more than any other attribute of our visual experience, a place where both physical and mental properties are interwoven in an intimate and enigmatic way. The last few decades have brought fascinating changes in the way that we think about 'colour' and the role 'colour' plays in our perceptual architecture. In Colour Perception: Mind and the physical world, leading scholars from cognitive psychology, philosophy, neurophysiology, and computational vision provide an overview of the contemporary developments in our understanding of colours and of the relationship between the 'mental' and the 'physical'. With each chapter followed by critical commentaries, the volume presents a lively and accessible picture of the intellectual traditions which have shaped research into colour perception. Written in a non-technical style and accessible to an interdisciplinary audience, the book will provide an invaluable resource for researchers in colour perception and the cognitive sciences.