Basic vision : an introduction to visual perception /
By: Snowden, Robert J.
Contributor(s): Thompson, Peter | Troscianko, Tom.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Edition: Revised edition.Description: xix, 400 p. : ill. (some coloured), portrait (coloured) ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199572021; 9780199572021:; 019957202X.Subject(s): Vision -- Physiology | Visual perceptionDDC classification: 152.14Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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152.1 GOL Sensation and perception / | 152.14 GOR Theories of visual perception / | 152.14 HOF Visual intelligence : how we create what we see / | 152.14 SNO Basic vision : an introduction to visual perception / | 152.142 The intelligent eye / | 152.148 Illusion in nature and art, | 152.3 Motor control and learning : a behavioral emphasis / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Figure acknowledgements -- 0 : introduction : a trailer to the book -- 1 : the first steps in seeing -- 2 : signalling changes -- 3 : to the cortex -- 4 : spatial vision -- 5 : colour vision -- 6 : the perception of motion -- 7 : the third dimension -- 8 : the development of vision -- 9 : attention and neglect -- 10 : the perception of faces -- 11 : vision and action -- 12 : how we know it might be so -- Index.
This text demystifies the processes through which the brain 'sees'. It leads 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.