The history of research on visual systems, as abundantly illustrated in this Silver Jubilee
Issue, is a history of the rejection of the naive realist's view that “we see the world as it …

Visual Perception explores fundamental topics underlying the field of visual perception,
including the perception of brightness and color, the physics of light, and the optics of the …

This paper is organised approximately into two halves. In the fi rst half, I review evidence
about the structure of the visual system, and I use that evidence to frame what I think are …

Addressing the question, how does the human visual path work, this book attempts to
integrate much of visual psychophysics with known facts about visual processes. Harvard …

Building on the successful formula of the first edition, Martin Tovée offers a concise but
detailed account of how the visual system is organised and functions to produce visual …

VISUAL PERCEPTION BEGINS in the retina and occurs in two stages. Light entering the
cornea is projected onto the back of the eye, where it is converted into an electrical signal by …

The traditional picture of the early stages of sensory processing in the adult mammalian
cortex suggests that the functional properties of cortical cells and the functional architecture …

Late 19th century studies of the brain provided evidence that part of the cerebral cortex was
made up of primary sensory receiving areas and primary motor areas. These comprised a …

Much controversy exists around the locus of conscious visual perception in human cortex.
Some authors have proposed that its neural correlates correspond with recurrent processing …

Understanding the neural basis of visual perception is a long-standing fundamental goal of
neuroscience. Historically, most vision studies were carried out on humans, macaques and …