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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 | |