Visual Cognition: Computational, Experimental and Neuropsychological Perspectives - Hardcover

Bruce; Humphreys

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863771246 ISBN 13: 9780863771248

Publisher: Psychology Press, 1989

Synopsis

Vision allows us to do many things. It enables us to perceive a world composed of meaningful objects and events. It enables us to track those events as they take place in front of our eyes. It enables us to read. It provides accurate spatial information for actions such as reaching for or avoiding objects. It provides colour and texture that can help us to separate objects from their background, and so forth. This book is concerned with understanding the processes that allow us to carry out these various visually?driven behaviours. In the past ten years our understanding of visual processing has undergone a rapid change, primarily fostered by the convergence of computational, experimental and neuropsychological work on the topic. Visual Cognition provides the first major attempt to cover all aspects of this work within a single text. It provides a state?of?the?art summary of research on visual information processing, relevant to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and research workers. It covers: seeing static forms, object recognition, dynamic vision (motion perception and visual masking), visual attention, visual memory, visual aspects of reading. For each topic, the relevant computational, experimental and neuropsychological work is integrated to provide a broader coverage than that of other texts.

About this title

About the Author

B. L. Bruce holds a Bachelor s degree in literature and creative writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Currently a writer, photographer, and editor, her work has appeared in over fifteen anthologies, magazines, and literary publications, including The Sun Magazine, Northwind Magazine, and The Soundings Review. Most recently she was named Featured Poet of The Wayfarer s holiday issue, her work reflecting a life amongst her native California backdrop of redwoods and Pacific shoreline. She was nominated for the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize in 2009 as a student of Santa Cruz s first poet laureate, Gary Young. The Weight of Snow is her first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0863771246
• ISBN 13: 9780863771248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352