How Animals See the World Comparative Behavior, Biology, and Evolution of Vision

by Lazareva, Olga F.; Shimizu, Toru; Wasserman, Edward A.

• ISBN13: 9780195334654
• ISBN10: 0195334655
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The visual world of animals is highly diverse and often very different from the world that we humans take for granted. This book provides an extensive review of the latest behavioral and neurobiological research on animal vision, highlighting fascinating species similarities and differences in visual processing. It contains 26 chapters written by world-leading experts about a variety of species including: honeybees, spiders, fish, birds, and primates. The chapters are divided into six sections: Perceptual grouping and segmentation, Object perception and object recognition, Motion perception, Visual attention, Different dimensions of visual perception, and Evolution of the visual system. An exhaustive work in range and depth, How Animals See the Worldwill be a valuable resource for advanced students and researchers in areas of cognitive psychology, perception and cognitive neuroscience, as well as researchers in the visual sciences.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Perceptual Groupings and Segmentation
What Birds See and What They Don't: Luminance, Contrast, and Spatial and Temporal Resolution	p. 5
Color Vision in Goldfish and Other Vertebrates	p. 25
Grouping and Early Visual Processing in Avian Vision	p. 43
Figure-Ground Segregation and Object-Based Attention in Pigeons	p. 63
Neurobiological Foundations of Figure-Ground Segregation in Primates	p. 77
Illusory Perception in Animals: Observations and Interpretations	p. 93
Amodal Completion and Illusory Perception in Birds and Primates	p. 101
Neurobiology of Perception of Illusory Contours in Animals	p. 117
Object Perception and Object Recognition
How Jumping Spiders See the World	p. 133
Visual Discrimination by the Honeybee (Apis mellifera)	p. 165
Recognition-by-Components: A Bird's Eye View	p. 191
Birds' Perception of Depth and Objects in Pictures	p. 217
The Recognition of Rotated Objects in Animals	p. 233
Neural Mechanisms of Object Recognition in Nonhuman Primates	p. 247
Motion Perception
Avian Visual Processing of Motion and Objects	p. 271
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Visual Motion Detection in Birds	p. 289
Primate Motion Perception	p. 319
Visual Attention
Primate Visual Attention: How Studies of Monkeys Have Shaped Theories of Selective Visual Processing	p. 335
Selective and Divided Attention in Birds	p. 351
Visual Cognition in Baboons: Attention to Global and Local Stimulus Properties	p. 371
Different Dimensions of Visual Perception
Circadian Visual System of Mammals	p. 389
Evolution of Visual System
Evolution of the Brain in Vertebrates: Overview	p. 419
Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye	p. 441
The Avian Visual System: Overview	p. 473
Development of the Visual System in Birds and Mammals	p. 483
Brain Asymmetry in Vertebrates	p. 501
Postscript
Why Comparative Studies of Vision Matter	p. 523
Index	p. 529
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