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Book Quantifying Crowded and Uncrowded Letter Recognition

Download or read book Quantifying Crowded and Uncrowded Letter Recognition written by Daniel Robert Coates and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite decades of research, significant mysteries remain concerning two fundamental aspects of human visual processing: how we perceive moderately complex line shapes such as letters of the alphabet, and how peripheral vision differs from foveal vision. This dissertation comprises studies that address both these topics, using experiments with letter recognition and visual "crowding"--The deleterious influence of flanking objects on identification of a target. Letters are well-studied psychophysical stimuli that strike a balance between degenerate patterns such as Gabor patches or gratings, with more uncontrolled stimuli such as natural images. Letters contain distinct spatial features that are more straightforward to quantify than the characteristics of natural scenes, yet have a sufficient richness of information to probe the general-purpose mechanisms of object recognition. The last decade has seen a renewed interest in perception in the peripheral visual field, with a particular emphasis on the phenomenon of crowding. Many researchers acknowledge that this curious effect provides a unique window into the process of object recognition. Since there is such a marked difference between the periphery, where crowding is potent, and the fovea, where it is nearly absent, crowding sheds light on the dichotomy between visual processing in the high resolution fovea versus the information-limited periphery. Understanding crowding may illuminate general principles of biological visual processing.

Book Society for Neuroscience Abstracts

Download or read book Society for Neuroscience Abstracts written by Society for Neuroscience. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ophthalmic Clinical Procedures

Download or read book Ophthalmic Clinical Procedures written by Frank Eperjesi and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It is a unique guide that combines in a single package an exceptionally clear, step-by-step text, illuminating line drawings and a DVD containing animated Powerpoint slides and over 40 video clips with voiceover to give you the quickest, easiest and most practical instruction yet in all the fundamental ophthalmic procedures. You will find Ophthalmic Clinical Procedures: A Multimedia Guide a truly indispensable tool in getting to grips with techniques, which are all too often taught by description only. DVD contains video footage of over 40 fundamental clinical ophthalmic procedures to give you the clearest possible instruction Voiceover gives additional information Book contains exceptionally straightforward descriptions allied to clear illustrations highlighting principal features Step-by-step approach makes learning the techniques easy

Book Ophthalmology at a Glance

Download or read book Ophthalmology at a Glance written by Jane Olver and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ophthalmology at a Glance provides a concise overview ofthe specialty, with clear and simple diagrams illustrating theessential information required for students, trainee optometrists,opticians and specialty nurses. It includes details on history and examination, before movingthrough specific conditions and their treatment. Closely trackingthe undergraduate ophthalmology curriculum, this new edition isfully updated to reflect new developments in the field. Ophthalmology at a Glance: • Features tip boxes to give further insight into topics,warning boxes to indicate cautionary advice, help with examtechnique, further reading, and key point boxes which summarizeeach chapter • Includes new chapters on tropical ophthalmology, ocularoncology and giant cell arteritis • Features expanded material on red eye and painful lossof vision, and discussion of new scientific evidence for theexistence of a sixth layer of the cornea (Dua’s layer) • Includes a companion website atwww.ataglanceseries.com/ophthal featuring clinical case studies,all the clinical images from the book as PowerPoint slides, andinteractive flashcards for self-test

Book Adler s Physiology of the Eye

Download or read book Adler s Physiology of the Eye written by Leonard A Levin and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drs. Paul L. Kaufman, Albert Alm, Leonard A Levin, Siv F. E. Nilsson, James Ver Hoeve, and Samuel Wu present the 11th Edition of the classic text Adler's Physiology of the Eye, updated to enhance your understanding of ocular function. This full-color, user-friendly edition captures the latest molecular, genetic, and biochemical discoveries and offers you unparalleled knowledge and insight into the physiology of the eye and its structures. A new organization by function, rather than anatomy, helps you make a stronger connection between physiological principles and clinical practice; and more than 1,000 great new full-color illustrations help clarify complex concepts. You can also access the complete contents online at www.expertconsult.com. Deepen your grasp of the physiological principles that underlie visual acuity, color vision, ocular circulation, the extraocular muscle, and much more. Improve your understanding of physiology by referring to this totally updated volume--organized by function, rather than anatomy--and make a stronger connection between physiological principles and clinical practice. Better visualize information with a new, revamped format that includes 1,000 illustrations presented in full-color to better clarify complex concepts and functions. Access the most recent molecular, genetic, and biochemical discoveries affecting eye function, and gain fresh perspectives from a new, international editorial team. Search the entire contents online and download all the illustrations at www.expertconsult.com.

Book Typical and Atypical Processing of Gaze

Download or read book Typical and Atypical Processing of Gaze written by Chris Ashwin and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Laws of Seeing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wolfgang Metzger
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2009-08-21
  • ISBN : 0262513366
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Laws of Seeing written by Wolfgang Metzger and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of a classic work in vision science from 1936 by a leading figure in the Gestalt movement, covering topics that continue to be major issues in vision research today. This classic work in vision science, written by a leading figure in Germany's Gestalt movement in psychology and first published in 1936, addresses topics that remain of major interest to vision researchers today. Wolfgang Metzger's main argument, drawn from Gestalt theory, is that the objects we perceive in visual experience are not the objects themselves but perceptual effigies of those objects constructed by our brain according to natural rules. Gestalt concepts are currently being increasingly integrated into mainstream neuroscience by researchers proposing network processing beyond the classical receptive field. Metzger's discussion of such topics as ambiguous figures, hidden forms, camouflage, shadows and depth, and three-dimensional representations in paintings will interest anyone working in the field of vision and perception, including psychologists, biologists, neurophysiologists, and researchers in computational vision—and artists, designers, and philosophers. Each chapter is accompanied by compelling visual demonstrations of the phenomena described; the book includes 194 illustrations, drawn from visual science, art, and everyday experience, that invite readers to verify Metzger's observations for themselves. Today's researchers may find themselves pondering the intriguing question of what effect Metzger's theories might have had on vision research if Laws of Seeing and its treasure trove of perceptual observations had been available to the English-speaking world at the time of its writing.

Book Sophie s World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jostein Gaarder
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2007-03-20
  • ISBN : 1466804270
  • Pages : 735 pages

Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Book Visual Development

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nigel W. Daw
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 1461490596
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Visual Development written by Nigel W. Daw and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book on the market to cover the psychophysics, anatomy, physiology, and clinical deficits of the developing visual system in an accessible format and length. The visual system is the most commonly studied aspect of the nervous system and is the primary model for the study of both normal development and the effects of environment and sensory deprivation on development. This third edition highlights new research and features a large number of illustrations, many in color. It can be used as a supplementary text in neuroscience and ophthalmology courses. This book is a great resource for both novice and advanced researchers in the field of vision.

Book Spatial Vision

Download or read book Spatial Vision written by David Regan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 10.

Book Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales

Download or read book Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Psychophysics of Reading in Normal and Low Vision

Download or read book Psychophysics of Reading in Normal and Low Vision written by Gordon E. Legge and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-10-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a leader in the field, this book discusses the role of vision in reading. The author describes the influence of physical properties of text on reading performance and the implications for information processing in the visual pathways. He explores different forms of low vision that affect reading, text characteristics that optimize reading for those with low vision, principles underlying the legibility of text, and guidelines for displaying text. Special topics include the role of the magnocellular pathway in reading and dyslexia, Braille reading, and fonts for highway signs. An accompanying CD contains reprints of the seminal series of articles by Gordon E. Legge and colleagues published between 1985 and 2001.

Book Handbook of Visual Optics  Two Volume Set

Download or read book Handbook of Visual Optics Two Volume Set written by Pablo Artal and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 1967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Visual Optics offers an authoritative overview of encyclopedic knowledge in the field of physiological optics. It builds from fundamental concepts to the science and technology of instruments and practical procedures of vision correction, integrating expert knowledge from physics, medicine, biology, psychology, and engineering. The chapters comprehensively cover all aspects of modern study and practice, from optical principles and optics of the eye and retina to novel ophthalmic tools for imaging and visual testing, devices and techniques for visual correction, and the relationship between ocular optics and visual perception.

Book The Craftsman

Download or read book The Craftsman written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated monthly magazine in the interest of better art, better work and a better more reasonable way of living.

Book Murder Among Friends

Download or read book Murder Among Friends written by Candace Fleming and published by Anne Schwartz Books. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a decision: they would commit the perfect crime by kidnapping and murdering a child they both knew. But they made one crucial error: as they were disposing of the body of young Bobby Franks, whom they had bludgeoned to death, Nathan's eyeglasses fell from his jacket pocket. Multi-award-winning author Candace Fleming depicts every twist and turn of this harrowing case--how two wealthy, brilliant young men planned and committed what became known as the crime of the century, how they were caught, why they confessed, and how the renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow enabled them to avoid the death penalty. Following on the success of such books as The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh and The Family Romanov, this acclaimed nonfiction writer brings to heart-stopping life one of the most notorious crimes in our country's history.

Book Object Recognition  Attention  and Action

Download or read book Object Recognition Attention and Action written by Naoyuki Osaka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human object recognition is a classical topic both for philosophy and for the natural sciences. Ultimately, understanding of object recognition will be promoted by the cooperation of behavioral research, neurophysiology, and computation. This original book provides an excellent introduction to the issues that are involved. It contains chapters that address the ways in which humans and machines attend to, recognize, and act toward objects in the visual environment.

Book Research Methods in Human Development

Download or read book Research Methods in Human Development written by Paul C. Cozby and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1989 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For undergradute social science majors. A textbook on the interpretation and use of research. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.