Visual perception : physiology, psychology, and ecology /

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Author / Creator:Bruce, Vicki.
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:Hove, UK ; Hillsdale, USA : L. Erlbaum, c1990.
Description:xii, 431 p. :
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1117027
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Other authors / contributors:Green, Patrick R.
ISBN:0863771459
0863771467 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-411).
Table of Contents:
  • Part I.
  • The Physiological Basis of Visual Perception
  • Light and Eyes
  • The Neurophysiology of the Retina
  • Visual Pathways in the Brain
  • Part II.
  • Processing Retinal Images
  • Approaches to the Psychology of Visual Perception
  • Images, Filters and Features: The Primal Sketch
  • Perceptual Organisation
  • Perceiving Depth
  • The Computation of Image Motion
  • Object Recognition
  • Connectionist Models of Visual Perception
  • Part III.
  • Visual Information for the Control of Action
  • Introduction to the Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
  • Visual Guidance Of Animal Locomotion
  • Visual Guidance of Human Action
  • Theories of the Control of Action
  • Event Perception
  • Perception of the Social World
  • Part IV.
  • Conclusions
  • Contrasting Theories of Visual Perception