This book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the main facts and theories that guide
contemporary research on visual perception. While the chapters cover virtually all areas of …

There is a plethora of professional journals devoted to vision research, and a number of
excellent books dealing with perception as well as the neural bases of vision. No single …

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 comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition
continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in …

While the field of vision science has grown significantly in the past three decades, there
have been few comprehensive books that showed readers how to adopt a computional …

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 …

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 …

Does the world appear the same to everyone? Does what we know determine what we see?
Why do we see the world as we do? Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that …

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 …

▪ Abstract Before there was a formal discipline of psychology, there were attempts to
understand the relationship between visual perception and retinal physiology. Today, there …