Synopses & Reviews
This is at once a review and a summary of the tremendous advances that have been made in recent years on the effect of attention on visual perception. This broad-ranging volume will appeal to vision scientists as well as to those involved in using visual processes in computer animations, display design or the sensory systems of machines. Physiologists and neuroscientists interested in any aspect of sensory or motor processes will also find it very useful.
Synopsis
It has become apparent that vision is not a passive process working on the retinal image like a film to record a perfect copy as the perception. Instead, higher-level cognitive processes such as expectancies, memories and experience play a critical, almost overriding role. This book is a review and summary of the tremendous advances that have been made in recent years on the effect of attention on visual perception. The book will appeal to vision scientists as well as to people involved in using visual processes in computer animations, display design or the sensory systems of machines. Physiologists and neuroscientists interested in any aspect of sensory or motor processes will also find this a very useful and broad-ranging volume.
Description
System requirements for accompanying computer disc: Netscape, IE, Quicktime Version 3 or later. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents
Vision and Attention.- Shifts of Attention and Saccades Are Very Similar. Are They Causally Linked?- Contrast Gain, Area Summation and Temporal Tuning in Primate Visual Cortex.- Global Process in Form Vision and Their Relationship to Spatial Attention.- Visual Attention: the Active Vision Perspective.- Complexity, Vision and Attention.- Motion-Disparity Interaction and the Scaling of Stereoscopic Disparity.- Signal Detection and Attention in Systems Governed by Multiplicative Noise.- Change Blindness: Implications for the Nature of Visual Attention.- The Role of Expectations in Change Detection and Attentional Capture.- Attention, Eye Movements, and Neurons: Linking Physiology and Behavior.- Vision and Action in Virtual Environments: Modern Psychophysics in Spatial Cognition Research.- Selective Feature-Based Attention Directed to a Pair of Lines: Psychophysical Evidence and a Psychophysical Model.- Thoughts on Change Blindness.