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Preface to the First Edition | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Preface to the Third Edition | |
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Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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The Physiological Basis of Visual Perception | |
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Light and Eyes | |
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Light and the information it carries | |
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The evolution of light-sensitive structures | |
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The adaptive radiation of the vertebrate eye | |
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Conclusions | |
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The Neurophysiology of the Retina | |
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The retina of the horseshoe crab | |
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The vertebrate retina | |
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The retina as a filter | |
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Conclusions | |
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Visual Pathways in the Brain | |
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The lateral geniculate nucleus | |
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The striate cortex | |
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Beyond the striate cortex | |
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The human brain: Two visual pathways? | |
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Dynamics and feedback in the visual pathway | |
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Conclusions | |
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Vision for Awareness | |
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Approaches to the Psychology of Visual Perception | |
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Marr's theory of visual perception | |
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Connectionist models of visual perception | |
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Images, Filters, and Features: The Primal Sketch | |
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Light, surfaces, and vision | |
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The primal sketch | |
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Multiple spatial filters | |
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Other routes to the primal sketch | |
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Energy models for feature detection | |
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Some unresolved questions in multi-scale vision | |
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Illusory contours and orientation coding | |
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Summary | |
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Perceptual Organisation | |
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Ambiguous pictures | |
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Gestalt laws of organisation | |
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Concealment and advertisement | |
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Perceptual organisation in other species | |
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Why do the Gestalt laws work? | |
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Artificial intelligence approaches to grouping | |
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Finding texture boundaries | |
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The neurophysiology of texture segmentation | |
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Suppressive surrounds: Psychophysics | |
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Beyond filters: Contours and surfaces | |
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Conclusions | |
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Seeing a 3-D World | |
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Binocular stereopsis | |
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Pictorial cues to depth | |
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Depth from motion | |
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Integrating depth cues | |
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Conclusions | |
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The Computation of Image Motion | |
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First principles: Motion as orientation in space-time | |
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Motion detectors | |
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Encoding local velocity | |
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A hierarchy of processing in the motion energy system: From V1 to MT | |
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Global motion | |
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Second-order and "long-range" motions | |
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The integration of motion measurements | |
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Motion from feature tracking | |
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Spatial variations in the velocity field | |
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Position, motion, and eye movements | |
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Conclusions | |
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Object Recognition | |
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Simple mechanisms of recognition | |
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More complex recognition processes | |
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Template matching | |
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Feature analysis | |
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Structural descriptions | |
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Marr and Nishihara's theory of object recognition | |
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Beyond generalised cones: Recognition by components | |
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Viewpoint-dependent recognition | |
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Discriminating within categories of objects: The case of face recognition | |
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Static vs moving forms | |
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Conclusions | |
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Vision for Action | |
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Introduction to the Ecological Approach to Visual Perception | |
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J.J. Gibson's theory of perception | |
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The control of human action | |
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Conclusions | |
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Optic Flow and Locomotion | |
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Optic flow and retinal flow | |
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The visual control of insect flight | |
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Visual control of posture and locomotion | |
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Conclusions | |
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Vision and the Timing of Actions | |
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Scaling an action with distance | |
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Timing actions from optic flow | |
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Continuous visual control | |
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Predictive control | |
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Conclusions | |
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Perception of the Social World | |
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Perceiving other animals' behaviour | |
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Human perception of animate motion | |
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Human face perception | |
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Conclusions | |
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Conclusions | |
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Contrasting Theories of Visual Perception | |
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Cognitive and ecological theories of perception | |
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Active vision | |
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Conclusions | |
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References | |
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On-line Resources for Perception and Vision Science | |
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Glossary | |
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Author Index | |
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Subject Index | |