Seeing Spatial Form

Jenkin Michael R. M.

ISBN 10: 0195172884 / ISBN 13: 9780195172881

Editore: Oxford University Press, 2005

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• Titolo: Seeing Spatial Form
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195172884
• ISBN 13: 9780195172881
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

The world is divided into objects: things that are distinct from their backgrounds and that can move or be moved. Objects are food and prey and threats, as well as neutral items, and it is critical to be able to see them. How the form of an object is distinguished is one of the most basic, yet least understood, topics of research in vision perception. The object-defining system needs to operate in the real world, where objects and viewers move, and where the scene is cluttered, rarely offering a clear, unobscured view of any object. How are we able to see and define objects using the complex pattern of light falling on the retina? An object becomes visible if it differs sufficiently from its surroundings in its luminance, color, texture, motion, or depth. Although the processes that use these different cues are quite distinct, research has shown that they share some organizational principles. Seeing Spatial Form, is dedicated to David Martin Regan who has made so many contributions to our understanding of how we see objects. Its chapters bring together ideas from some of the world's leading researchers in form vision to explain what we know about distinguishing form. The book includes a CD-ROM, which contains additional demonstrations and color images that considerably enhance the chapter contents. Seeing Spatial Form will be an invaluable resource for student and professional researchers in vision science, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience.

Contenuti

• 1: Seeing Spatial Form
• Part I: Form Vision
• 2: Pictorial relief
• 3: Geometry and spatial vision
• 4: The inputs to global form detection
• 5: Probability multiplication as a new principle in psychophysics
• 6: Spatial form as inherently three dimensional
• Part II: Motion and Color
• 7: White's effect in lightness, color, and motion
• 8: The processing of motion-defined form
• 9: Vision in flying, driving, and sport
• 10: Form-from-watercolor in surface perception and old maps
• Part III: Eye Movements
• 11: The basis of saccadic decision: What we can learn from visual search and visual attention
• 12: Handling real forms in real life
• Part IV: Neural Basis of Form Vision
• 13: The processing of spatial form by the human brain studied by recording the brain's electrical and magnetic responses to visual stimuli
• 14: Linking psychophysics and physiology of center-surround interactions in visual motion processing
• 15: Transparent motion: A powerful tool to study segmentation, integration, adaptation, and attentional selection
• 16: Neurological correlates of damage to the magnocellular and parvocellular visual pathways: Motion, form, and form from motion after cerebral lesions
• 17: The effect of diverse dopamine receptors on spatial processing in the central retina: A model
• Part V: Development
• 18: Improving abnormal spatial vision in adults with Amblyopia
• 19: Visual development with one eye
• Appendix: Selected publications of David Regan