Accumulating neuropsychological, electrophysiological and behavioural evidence suggests
that the neural substrates of visual perception may be quite distinct from those underlying …

The late 19th neurological concept of dyslexia had 3 crucial elements: selectively poor
reading, with unaffected other cognitive skills and a genetic background. The contemporary …

First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the
cognitive sciences. It presents a model for understanding the visual processing underlying …

More than one third of the human brain is devoted to the processes of seeing-vision is after
all the main way in which we gather information about the world. But human vision is a …

The primate visual system contains dozens of distinct areas in the cerebral cortex and
several major subcortical structures. These subdivisions are extensively interconnected in a …

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 …

The small visual area known as MT or V5 has played a major role in our understanding of
the primate cerebral cortex. This area has been historically important in the concept of …

The majority of the research related to visual recognition has so far focused on bottom-up
analysis, where the input is processed in a cascade of cortical regions that analyze …

Cortical processing of visual information requires that information be exchanged between
neurons coding for distant regions in the visual field. It is argued that feedback connections …

This textbook augments the first edition through the inclusion of a set of reseach and review
papers selected by the authors to supplement the contents of each chapter by providing a …