Visual Cognition

by Humphreys, Glyn W.; Bruce, Vicki

• ISBN13: 9780863771248
• ISBN10: 0863771246
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-09-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pr

Summary

Vision allows us to do many things. It enables us to perceive a world composed of meaningful objects and events. It enables us to track those events as they take place in front of our eyes. It enables us to read. It provides accurate spatial information for actions such as reaching for or avoiding objects. It provides colour and texture that can help us to separate objects from their background, and so forth. This book is concerned with understanding the processes that allow us to carry out these various visually?driven behaviours. In the past ten years our understanding of visual processing has undergone a rapid change, primarily fostered by the convergence of computational, experimental and neuropsychological work on the topic. Visual Cognition provides the first major attempt to cover all aspects of this work within a single text. It provides a state?of?the?art summary of research on visual information processing, relevant to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and research workers. It covers: seeingstatic forms, object recognition, dynamic vision (motion perception and visual masking), visual attention, visual memory, visual aspects of reading. For each topic, the relevant computational, experimental and neuropsychological work is integrated to provide a broader coverage than that of other texts.

Table of Contents

An Introduction to Methods for Studying Visual Cognition

Seeing Static Forms

Visual Object Recognition

Dynamic Aspects of Vision

Visual Attention

Visual Memory and Imagery

Visual Processing in Reading

References

Indices

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