Two major functions of the visual system are discussed and contrasted. One function of
vision is the creation of an internal model or percept of the external world. Most research in …

Separate, but interacting, visual systems have evolved in the primate brain for the perception
of objects on the one hand and the control of actions directed at those objects on the other …

Why does the world look to us as it does? Generally speaking, this question has received
two types of answers in the cognitive sciences in the past fifty or so years. According to the …

Everyone shares the irresistible conception that vision is one sense. We experience one
coherent visual world and produce visually guided behavior to interact with that world …

Much of our human mental life looks to involve a seamless unfolding of perception, action
and experience: a golden braid in which each element twines intimately with the rest. We …

This paper argues that a theory of situated vision, suited for the dual purposes of object
recognition and the control of action, will have to provide something more than a system that …

Visual cognition, high-level vision, mid-level vision and top-down processing all refer to
decision-based scene analyses that combine prior knowledge with retinal input to generate …

Vision theories can be categorized in terms of the amount of explicit representation
postulated in the perceiver. Gibson's precomputational theory eschewed any explicit …

This book defines the emerging field of Active Perception which calls for studying perception
coupled with action. It is devoted to technical problems related to the design and analysis of …

Publisher Summary There appears to be important integrative areas within the superior
temporal sulcus in the monkey where a great deal of the necessary interaction to ensure …