ABSTRACT

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.

part I|74 pages

The Physiological Basis of Visual Perception

chapter 1|22 pages

Light and Eyes

chapter 2|18 pages

The Neurophysiology of the Retina

chapter 3|32 pages

Visual Pathways in the Brain

part II|224 pages

Vision for Awareness

chapter 6|49 pages

Perceptual Organisation

chapter 7|39 pages

Seeing a 3-D World

chapter 8|56 pages

The Computation of Image Motion

chapter 9|34 pages

Object Recognition

part III|104 pages

Vision for Action

chapter 11|29 pages

Optic Flow and Locomotion

chapter 12|21 pages

Vision and the Timing of Actions

chapter 13|36 pages

Perception of the Social World

part IV|15 pages

Conclusions

chapter 14|13 pages

Contrasting Theories of Visual Perception