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Active Vision The Psychology of Looking and Seeing

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ISBN-10: 0198524803

ISBN-13: 9780198524809

Edition: 2003

Authors: John M. Findlay, Iain D. Gilchrist

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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. This book is unique in focusing on vision as an "active" process. It goes beyond most accounts of vision where the focus is on seeing, to provide an integrated account of seeing and looking. Written by two leading vision scientists, this book will be valuable for vision researchers and psychology students.
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Book details

List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/9/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.20" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Preface
Passive vision and active vision
Introduction
Passive vision
Visual attention
Active vision
Active vision and vision for action
Outline of the book
Background to active vision
Introduction
The inhomogeneity of the visual projections
Introduction
Physiology of the visual projections
Psychophysical performance in peripheral vision
Comparison of psychophysical and physiological measures
Parallel visual pathways
Magnocellular and parvocellular systems
Visual processing in the cortex
The oculomotor system
The muscles of the eye
Classification of eye movements
Saccadic eye movement
Characteristic of saccades
Combining saccadic movements with pursuit and vergence
Saccadic suppression
Physiological pathways for saccadic eye movements
Summary
Visual selection, covert attention and eye movements
Covert and overt attention
Covert spatial attention
Spotlights
Zoom lens accounts of attention
Late vs. early selection models of attention
The visual benefits of covert spatial attention
The relationship between covert and overt attention
Klein's independence account
The sequential attentional model
The pre-motor theory of attention
Speed of attention
Neurophysiology of attention
Non-spatial attention
Attention to objects
Attention to visual properties
Active vision and attention
Summary
Visual orienting
Introduction
What determines the latency of orienting saccades?
Target properties
The gap effect
The remote distractor effect
Express saccades
Variability in latencies
Physiology of saccade initiation
Burst and pause cells in the reticular formation
Fixation, burst and buildup neurons in the superior colliculus
Variability of saccade latencies
What determines the landing position of orienting saccades?
Corrective saccades
The double step paradigm
The double target paradigm
Parallel processing of saccades
Antisaccades
Physiology of the WHERE system
Spatial coding and the saccadic system
The Findlay and Walker model
Development and plasticity
Visual sampling during text reading
Introduction
Basic patterns of visual sampling during reading
Perception during fixations in reading
Gaze-contingent methodologies
Measurement of the perceptual span
Preview benefit
Language processing
Lexical access: influences on the speed of word recognition
Optimal viewing position
Control of fixation duration
Control of landing position
Skipping words
Can linguistic variables influence landing position within words?
Theories of eye control during reading
Models emphasizing non-cognitive factors
Models driven by the lexical access process
Evaluation
Practical aspects of eye control in reading
Reading and the physical characteristics of the text
Dyslexia
Overview
Visual search
Visual search tasks
Theories of visual search
Feature integration theory
Guided search
A late-selection model of visual search
Overview of the models
The need for eye movements in visual search
Search without eye movement
Visual search and the conspicuity area or visual lobe
Eye movements in visual search
Saccades in parallel and serial visual search
Processing within an eye fixation during visual search
Guidance of saccades in visual search
Saccades in visual search: latencies and fixation durations
Saccades in visual search: landing positions
Ocular capture in visual search
Saccades in visual search: scanpaths
Physiology of visual search
Summary
Natural scenes and activities
Introduction
Early studies of picture scanning
Average characteristics of eye movement patterns during picture viewing
Scanpaths
The gaze selects informative details
Analytic studies of scene and object perception
Scenes and objects
Theories of object perception and scene perception
Are eye movements necessary for scene and object perception?
Object perception in peripheral vision
Scene context and object perception
Change blindness
Dynamic scenes and situations
Deictic vision
Vision supporting everyday actions
Summary
Human neuropsychology
Blindsight
Neglect
Balint's syndrome and dorsal simultanagnosia
Frontal lobe damage
Orienting without eye movements
Peripheral neuropsychology
Reading without eye movements
Saccadic head movement
Summary
Space constancy and trans-saccadic integration
The traditional approach: `compensatory taking into account'
Trans-saccadic integrations
Detection of displacement during saccades
Trans-saccadic fusion
Localisation of peri-saccadic probes
Memory guidance of saccades
Resolution of the conflicting results
Target displacements during saccades can be detected under some circumstances
A revised theory of space constancy and trans-saccadic integration
The neurophysiology of trans-saccadic processes
Conclusion: The Active Vision Cycle
Future directions
References
Index