Vision and the Visual System

Peter H. Schiller, Edward J. Tehovnik (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

408 Seiten

2015
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-993653-3 (ISBN)

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Vision and the Visual System offers students, teachers, and researchers a rigorous, yet accessible account of how the brain analyzes the visual scene. Schiller and Tehovnik describe key aspects of visual perception while explaining the relationship between eye movements and the neural structures in the brain, which play a central role in how we process visual information.

The book discusses various brain areas involved in processing information, focusing on the evolutionary origins and mechanics behind the several parallel pathways that compose the visual system. Later chapters explain how the nervous system processes the perception of color, motion, depth, and patterns. A variety of illusions are on display in Chapter 14, where the authors provide detailed explanations that deconstruct how the visual system operates to create them. The volume concludes with a discussion of recent attempts to build visual prosthetic devices for blind individuals, of which there are more than 40 million in the world.

Vision and the Visual System is based on Professor Schiller's more than 40 years of experience teaching vision courses at MIT, and is tailored especially for college undergraduates and graduate students interested in visual perception and the operations of the visual system.

Peter H. Schiller is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Edward J. Tehovnik worked at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than twenty years studying vision and oculomotor control in behaving monkeys. He now works as CNPq Investigator for The Brain Institute at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, Brazil.

Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1: Methods to Assess Visual Perception and Brain Function ; Chapter 2: Basic Wiring of the Visual System ; Chapter 3: The Retina ; Chapter 4: The Lateral Geniculate Nucleus ; Chapter 5: The Striate Cortex ; Chapter 6: Extrastriate Cortex ; Chapter 7: The ON and OFF Channels ; Chapter 8: The Midget and Parasol Channels ; Chapter 9: Color Vision ; Chapter 10: Adaptation ; Chapter 11: Motion Perception ; Chapter 12: Depth Perception ; Chapter 13: Pattern Perception ; Chapter 14: Illusions ; Chapter 15: Eye-Movement ; Chapter 16: Visual Prosthesis ; Name Index ; Subject Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.9.2015
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	257 x 178 mm
Gewicht	975 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Augenheilkunde
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	0-19-993653-6 / 0199936536
ISBN-13	978-0-19-993653-3 / 9780199936533
Zustand	Neuware