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Author(s): Robert Snowden, Peter Thompson, Tom Troscianko
ISBN(s): 9780199572021, 019957202X
Edition: 2
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Year: 2012
Language: english
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Author:  Robert Snowden, Peter Thompson, Tom Troscianko

Why do things look blurry underwater? Why do people drive too fast in fog? How do you high-pass filter a cup of tea? What have mixer taps to do with colour vision? Basic Vision: An Introduction to Visual Perception demystifies the processes through which we see the world. Written by three authors with over 80 years of research and undergraduate teaching experience between them, it leads the reader step-by-step through the intricacies of visual processing, with full-colour illustrations on nearly every page. The writing style captures the excitement of recent research in neuroscience that has transformed our understanding of visual processing, but delivers it with a humour that keeps the reader enthused, rather than bemused. The book takes us through the various elements that come together as our perception of the world around us: the perception of size, colour, motion, and three-dimensional space. It illustrates the intricacy of the visual system, discussing its development during infancy, and revealing how the brain can get it wrong, either as a result of brain damage, through which the network of processes become compromised, or through illusion, where the brain compensates for mixed messages by seeing what it thinks should be there, rather than conveying the reality. The book also demonstrates the importance of contemporary techniques and methodology, and neuroscience-based techniques in particular, in driving forward our understanding of the visual system. Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre to accompany Basic Vision features: For registered adopters: Figures from the book available to download, to facilitate lecture preparation. Test bank of multiple choice questions – a readily available tool for either formative or summative assessment. A Journal Club, with questions to lead students through key research articles that relate to topics covered in the book. For students: Annotated web links, giving students ready access to these additional learning resources.

Table of Contents:

  • 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 V1?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 area 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?green 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
  • Problems 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 recognition
  • Identity
  • Expressions
  • Prosopagnosia
  • Delusions
  • Conclusions
  • 11 Vision and action
  • ?What? and ?where? streams in vision
  • Blindsight
  • The superior colliculus route
  • B?lint?Holmes syndrome or optic ataxia
  • Visual form agnosia
  • Dissociation of perception and action
  • Eye movements
  • Saccadic suppression
  • 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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