Foundations of Vision

Foundations of Vision

Author: Brian A. Wandell

Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Incorporated

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13:

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Designed for students, scientists and engineers interested in learning about the core ideas of vision science, this volume brings together the broad range of data and theory accumulated in this field.


Dynamics of Visual Motion Processing

Dynamics of Visual Motion Processing

Author: Guillaume S. Masson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-12-02

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1441907815

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Motion processing is an essential piece of the complex brain machinery that allows us to reconstruct the 3D layout of objects in the environment, to break camouflage, to perform scene segmentation, to estimate the ego movement, and to control our action. Although motion perception and its neural basis have been a topic of intensive research and modeling the last two decades, recent experimental evidences have stressed the dynamical aspects of motion integration and segmentation. This book presents the most recent approaches that have changed our view of biological motion processing. These new experimental evidences call for new models emphasizing the collective dynamics of large population of neurons rather than the properties of separate individual filters. Chapters will stress how the dynamics of motion processing can be used as a general approach to understand the brain dynamics itself.


Object Categorization

Object Categorization

Author: Sven J. Dickinson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-09-07

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 0521887380

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A unique multidisciplinary perspective on the problem of visual object categorization.


Trusting the Subject?

Trusting the Subject?

Author: Anthony Jack

Publisher: Imprint Academic

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780907845560

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Introspective evidence is still treated with great suspicion in cognitive science. This work is designed to encourage cognitive scientists to take more account of the subject's unique perspective.


Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Volume 1

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Volume 1

Author: Larry R. Squire

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2009-06-12

Total Pages: 12505

ISBN-13: 0080963935

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The Encyclopedia of the Neuroscience explores all areas of the discipline in its focused entries on a wide variety of topics in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and other related areas of neuroscience. Each article is written by an expert in that specific domain and peer reviewed by the advisory board before acceptance into the encyclopedia. Each article contains a glossary, introduction, a reference section, and cross-references to other related encyclopedia articles. Written at a level suitable for university undergraduates, the breadth and depth of coverage will appeal beyond undergraduates to professionals and academics in related fields.


The Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization

The Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization

Author: Johan Wagemans

Publisher: Oxford Library of Psychology

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 1121

ISBN-13: 0199686858

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Perceptual organization comprises a wide range of processes such as perceptual grouping, figure-ground organization, filling-in, completion and perceptual switching. 'Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization' provides a broad and extensive review of the current literature, written in an accessible form for scholars and students.


Understanding Cognitive Development

Understanding Cognitive Development

Author: Barbara Landau

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2016-09-17

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1134933894

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The papers in this volume examine the state of the art in key areas of developmental cognitive neuroscience, focusing on theoretically driven research on cognition and its development. The past decade has seen an increasing number of empirical papers on the relationship between brain and cognitive development. But despite the clearly burgeoning interest in this topic, there is a relative paucity of work motivated by deep theoretical questions about the nature of cognition and its development. Many papers are still in the mode of reporting brain-cognition correlations with a focus on regional activations during brain imaging - a useful approach, but one that is limited with respect to its contributions to understanding the structure of cognition and its development. The papers in this special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology consider a number of domains and mechanisms in cognition, including language, number, space, faces, reading, memory, and attention, and represent the wealth of approaches and techniques that can be used to shed light on the nature of cognitive development in brain and mind. These include cross-species comparisons, studies of development under experiential deprivation or genetic differences, classical developmental experimentation, and imaging techniques such as NIRS and fMRI which have recently been applied to developmental questions. The combination of solid theorizing together with a broad range of approaches allows a critical but constructive look at the latest findings in the field relevant to answering enduring questions about cognition, its development, and its realization in the developing brain.


Levels of Perception

Levels of Perception

Author: Laurence Harris

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-04-29

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 0387226737

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In this book the authors relate and discuss the idea that perceptual processes can be considered at many levels. A phenomenon that appears at one level may not be the same as a superficially similar phenomenon that appears at a different level. For example "induced motion" can be analyzed in terms of eye movements or at the retinal level or at a much higher cognitive level: how do these analyses fit together? The concept of levels also makes us think of the flow of information between levels, which leads to a consideration of the roles of top-down and bottom-up (or feed-forward, feed-back) flow. There are sections devoted to vestibular processing, eye movement processing and processing during brightness perception. The final section covers levels of processing in spatial vision. All scientists and graduate students working in vision will be interested in this book as well as people involved in using visual processes in computer animations, display design or the sensory systems of machines.