Vision and Action - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521148391 ISBN 13: 9780521148399

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The visual processes involved in moving, reaching, grasping, and playing sports are complex interactions. For example, the action of moving the head provides useful cues to help interpret the visual information. Simultaneously, vision can provide important information about the actions and their control. This becomes a reiterative process. This process, and the interactions between vision and action, are the foci of this volume. This book contains contributions from scientists who are leaders in each of the several facets of the subject. Examples of the types of action considered vary from moving the eyes and head and body, as in looking around or walking, to complex actions such as driving a car, catching a ball, or playing table tennis. Graduate students and researchers in vision science, as well as physiologists and neuroscientists interested in any aspect of sensory or motor processes, will find this a useful and broad-ranging book.

About this title

Book Description

This book is about the two-way interplay between vision and action. The contributors examine this interplay occurring during such actions as driving, moving your eyes or head, or catching a ball. This will be useful to researchers, physiologists and neuroscientists interested in any aspect of sensory or motor processes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521148391
• ISBN 13: 9780521148399
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Harris Laurence R.