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Book Perceiving in Depth  Volume 3  Other Mechanisms of Depth Perception

Download or read book Perceiving in Depth Volume 3 Other Mechanisms of Depth Perception written by Ian P. Howard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three-volume work Perceiving in Depth is a sequel to Binocular Vision and Stereopsis and to Seeing in Depth, both by Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers. This work is much broader in scope than the previous books and includes mechanisms of depth perception by all senses, including aural, electrosensory organs, and the somatosensory system. Volume 1 reviews sensory coding, psychophysical and analytic procedures, and basic visual mechanisms. Volume 2 reviews stereoscopic vision. Volume 3 reviews all mechanisms of depth perception other than stereoscopic vision. The three volumes are extensively illustrated and referenced and provide the most detailed review of all aspects of perceiving the three-dimensional world. Volume 3 addresses all depth-perception mechanisms other than stereopsis. The book starts with an account of monocular cues to depth, including accommodation, vergence eye movements, perspective, interposition, shading, and motion parallax. A chapter on constancies in depth perception, such as the ability to perceive the sizes and shapes of objects as they move or rotate in depth, is followed by a chapter on the ways in which depth cues interact. The next chapter reviews sources of information, such as changing disparity, image looming, and vergence eye movements, used in the perception of objects moving in depth. Various pathologies of depth perception, including visual neglect, stereoanomalies, and albanism are reviewed. Visual depth-perception mechanisms through the animal kingdom are described, starting with insects and progressing through crustaceans, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The chapter includes a discussion of how stereoscopic vision may have evolved. The next chapter describes how visual depth perception is used to guide reaching movements of the hand, avoiding obstacles, and walking to a distant object. The next three chapters review non-visual mechanisms of depth perception. Auditory mechanisms include auditory localization, echolocation in bats and marine mammals, and the lateral-line system of fish. Some fish emit electric discharges and then use electric sense organs to detect distortions of the electric field produced by nearby objects. Some beetles and snakes use heat-sensitive sense organs to detect sources of heat. The volume ends with a discussion of mechanisms used by animals to navigate to a distant site. Ants find their way back to the nest by using landmarks and by integrating their walking movements. Several animals navigate by the stars or by polarized sunlight. It seems that animals in several phyla navigate by detecting the Earths magnetic field.

Book Foundations of Perceptual Theory

Download or read book Foundations of Perceptual Theory written by S.C. Masin and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1993-06-30 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical analysis reveals that perceptual theories and models are doomed to relatively short lives. The most popular contemporary theories in perceptual science do not have as wide an acceptance among researchers as do some of those in other sciences. To understand these difficulties, the authors of the present volume explore the conceptual and philosophical foundations of perceptual science. Based on logical analyses of various problems, theories, and models, they offer a number of reasons for the current weakness of perceptual explanations. New theoretical approaches are also proposed. At the end of each chapter, dicussants contribute to the conclusions by critically examining the authors' ideas and analyses.

Book Binocular Vision and Stereopsis

Download or read book Binocular Vision and Stereopsis written by Ian P. Howard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive survey of binocular vision, with an emphasis on its role in the perception of a three-dimensional world. The central theme is biological vision. Machine vision and computational models are discussed where they contribute to an understanding of living systems.

Book The Role of Motion Parallax in the Perception of Distance  Depth and Size

Download or read book The Role of Motion Parallax in the Perception of Distance Depth and Size written by Deborah Griffin Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perceptual Constancy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vincent Walsh
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1998-08-13
  • ISBN : 9780521460613
  • Pages : 568 pages

Download or read book Perceptual Constancy written by Vincent Walsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is not always truly reflected in what we see. The brain creates images, fills in gaps and even at times constructs fictions. This book brings together experts from several diverse fields to present state of the art accounts of how the visual world enters two small holes in our heads and is reconstructed to give us the rich impressions of color, movement, and shape.

Book Perception

Download or read book Perception written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seeing in Depth  Depth perception

Download or read book Seeing in Depth Depth perception written by Ian P. Howard and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perception of Space and Motion

Download or read book Perception of Space and Motion written by William Epstein and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1995-09-15 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past 25 years, the field of space and motion perception has rapidly advanced. Once thought to be distinct perceptual modes, space and motion are now thought to be closely linked. Perception of Space andMotion provides a comprehensive review of perception and vision research literature, including new developments in the use of sound and touch in perceiving space and motion. Other topics include the perception of structure from motion, spatial layout,and information obtained in static and dynamic stimulation.Spatial layoutStructure from motionInformation on static and dynamic stimulation (visual, acoustic, and haptic)

Book Digest

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  • Author : United States. Air Force Medical Service
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1969
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Digest written by United States. Air Force Medical Service and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sensation and Perception

Download or read book Sensation and Perception written by Stanley Coren and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychophysics - Visual system - Brightness and spatial frequency - Color - Auditory system - Hearing - Taste, smell and touch - Space - Form - Constancies - Speech and music - Time - Motion - Attention - Development - Learning and experience - Individual differences - The Stroop Effect.

Book The Role of Motion Parallax in Depth Perception

Download or read book The Role of Motion Parallax in Depth Perception written by John Nelson Park and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Psychophysical Analysis of Visual Space

Download or read book Psychophysical Analysis of Visual Space written by John C. Baird and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychophysical Analysis of Visual Space focuses on the use of psychophysics in the analysis of visual space, with emphasis on space perception and physiological optics. Topics covered include null-size judgment, ratio-size judgment, frontal-size judgment, and distance judgment, as well as selected physiological correlates of size and distance judgments. A theoretical analysis of model reduction is also presented. This volume consists of 11 chapters and opens with an overview of basic definitions and evidence in support of the constancy hypothesis. A psychophysical approach to the problems of visual space is described. The reader is then introduced to null-size judgment, ratio-size judgment, frontal-size judgment, and distance judgment, with emphasis on the importance of the retina as a reference for spatial judgments and how size judgments of targets at different distances can be related to judgments of targets at a constant distance. Some of the important relationships between ocular physiology and size-distance judgments are also examined, paying particular attention to size and distance judgments which relate to the variables of convergence, accommodation, angle-of-regard, and binocular disparity. The remaining chapters look at two stimulus correlates of distance judgments: frontal size and longitudinal size. This book will be of interest to physiologists, physicists, and experimental psychologists.

Book Perception

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. Held
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 3642463541
  • Pages : 986 pages

Download or read book Perception written by R. Held and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume was designed to focus on the problems of perception and originally was to have been solely edited by Professor Hans-Lukas Teuber who was a member of the editorial board which initiated production of the Handbook. Accordingly, he issued invitations to a number of researchers III perception asking them to contribute chapters written in a style described III his words: " . . . Ire hope that no author lI'ill feel COl/strained to undertake a major search of the literature: he could In'ite, instead. on an area in which he has been quite actire himse?t~ and II'here most of the issues are immediately obt"ious to him. In this Iray, the IITiting of the chapter should be cnjoyable rather than a chore . . it should result in a personal account of the state of a given area rather than in an encyclopedic treatise . . . the field deserves this sort of summary ret'iell", particularly (f it is pointed toward the future and speeds the convergence of det'elopments in sensory physiology and psychological studies of perception, " With the growing burden of national and international commitments includ ing departmental headship, Professor Teuber felt that it would be wise to share the editorial responsibilities for this volume and accordingly, asked Professors Richard Held and Herschel Leibowitz to co-edit the volume with him in the same spirit as outlined in his invitation to authors. They agreed to help in this task.

Book Indirect Perception

Download or read book Indirect Perception written by Irvin Rock and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This posthumous volume, the culmination of a long and distinguished career, brings together an original essay by the author together with a careful selection of previously published articles (most by Rock) on the theory that perception is an indirect process in which visual experience is derived by inference, rather than being directly and independently determined by retinal stimulation.

Book Thinking and Seeing

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  • Author : Daniel T. Levin
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780262621816
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Thinking and Seeing written by Daniel T. Levin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection in which the contributors draw on diverse areas of cognitive science to examine the difference between actual and presumed visual cognition.

Book Convergence as a Cue to Absolute Distance

Download or read book Convergence as a Cue to Absolute Distance written by Walter Charles Gogel and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of convergence and accommodation in the perception of absolute distance was investigated. Perceived absolute distance was measured by using a visual ruler consisting of a monocularly viewed alley. The apparent distance of a binocular object was judged with respect to the monocular alley for convergence values of 4 degrees or less. With accommodation held constant, only a few subjects perceived different distances for different convergence values. With both absolute accommodation and accommodative differences in agreement with convergence, the proportion of subjects who could make this discrimination increased. In general, the results indicate the inadequacy of convergence as a cue to perceived absolute distance for the range of convergence values used in this study. (Author).