Vision and the Visual System - Couverture rigide

Schiller, Peter H.; Tehovnik, Edward J.

 
9780199936533: Vision and the Visual System
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0199936536 ISBN 13 : 9780199936533
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199936536
ISBN 13 
9780199936533
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
408
Coordonnées du fabricant
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