Read complete books and articles on: Visual Perception

Perception - in psychology, mental organization and interpretation of sensory information. The Gestalt psychologists studied extensively the ways in which people organize and select from the vast array of stimuli that are presented to them, concentrating particularly on visual stimuli. Perception is influenced by a variety of factors, including the intensity and physical dimensions of the stimulus; such activities of the sense organs as effects of preceding stimulation; the subject's past experience; attention factors such as readiness to respond to a stimulus; and motivation and emotional state of the subject. Stimulus elements in visual organization form perceived patterns according to their nearness to each other, their similarity, the tendency for the subject to perceive complete figures, and the ability of the subject to distinguish important figures from background. Perceptual constancy is the tendency of a subject to interpret one object in the same manner, regardless of such variations as distance, angle of sight, or brightness. Through selective attention, the subject focuses on a limited number of stimuli, and ignores those that are considered less important. Depth perception, considered to be innate in most animals, is produced by a variety of visual cues indicating perspective, and by a slight disparity in the images of an object on the two retinas. An absolute threshold is the minimal physical intensity of a stimulus that a subject can normally perceive, whereas a difference threshold is the minimal amount of change in a stimulus that can be consciously detected by the subject. Recent studies have shown that stimuli are actually perceived in the brain, while sensory organs merely gather the signals. William Dobelle's research, for instance, has offered significant hope for the blind.

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12 of the Best Books and Articles on: Visual Perception

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Problems of Vision: Rethinking the Causal Theory of Perception » Read Now
by Gerald Kamarck Vision. 275 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

In this book Gerald Vision argues for a new causal theory, one that engages provocatively with direct realism and makes no use of a now discredited subjectivism.
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The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception » Read Now
by James J. Gibson. 336 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...THE ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO VISUAL PERCEPTION THE ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO VISUAL PERCEPTION James J. Gibson CORNELL UNIVERSITY...Summary 44 PART TWO THE INFORMATION FOR...
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Attention in Vision: Perception, Communication, and Action » Read Now
by A. H. C. van der Heijden. 378 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Attention in Vision is an important work which aims to identify, address and solve some major problems and issues in the psychology of visual perception, attention and intentional control. The central aim is to investigate how people use their visual perception in the performance of tasks and to...
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Attention in Vision is an important work which aims to identify, address and solve some major problems and issues in the psychology of visual perception, attention and intentional control. The central aim is to investigate how people use their visual perception in the performance of tasks and to explore how the intentional control of action is achieved. Through an extensive review of the philosophy of psychology, the history of ideas and theories of intentional control, and an analysis of various tasks, a new theory is developed which argues that there is an important difference between report tasks and act tasks. The first section of the book introduces the issues of visual perception in a historical context and outlines van der Heijden's theory. The theory is developed in the second and third sections by analysing the findings from some of the main experimental paradigms of cognitive psychology and applying the theory to act tasks. Finally, the epilogue skilfully draws together the theory into an explanation of different historical and theoretical perspectives in psychology. This book will be invaluable to researchers and high-level undergraduates in the field of visual perception and attention.
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Descartes on Seeing: Epistemology and Visual Perception » Read Now
by Celia Wolf-Devine. 123 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Seeing Epistemology and Visual Perception Celia Wolf-Devine Published...on seeing: epistemology and visual perception / Celia Wolf-Devine. p...inten tions are to explain...
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A Parallel Between Visual and Haptic Perception of Size at a Distance, in Ecological Psychology » Read Now
by Steven Garrett, Dragana Barac-Cikoja. 18 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...quantity may be involved in the visual perception of size at a distance. Preliminary...quantity is the demonstration that visual perception reveals the same...
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Visual Perception and Cognition in Infancy » Read Now
by Carl Granrud. 362 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Visual Perception and Cognition in Infancy Carnegie...Collected Tutorial Essays Granrud: Visual Perception and Cognition in Infancy Gregg...VanLehn: Architectures for...
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Rules That Babies Look by: The Organization of Newborn Visual Activity » Read Now
by Marshall M. Haith. 148 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...babies look by. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Visual perception in children. 2. Cognition in children. 3. Infant...darkness for obvious reasons. Hebb 1949 held that...
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Visual Attention » Read Now
by Richard D. Wright. 478 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Paying attention is something we are all familiar with and often take for granted, yet the nature of the operations involved in paying attention is one of the most profound mysteries of the brain. This book contains a rich, interdisciplinary collection of articles by some of the pioneers of...
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Paying attention is something we are all familiar with and often take for granted, yet the nature of the operations involved in paying attention is one of the most profound mysteries of the brain. This book contains a rich, interdisciplinary collection of articles by some of the pioneers of contemporary research on attention. Central themes include how attention is moved within the visual field; attention's role during visual search, and the inhibition of these search processes; how attentional processing changes as continued practice leads to automatic performance; how visual and auditory attentional processing may be linked; and recent advances in functional neuro-imaging and how they have been used to study the brain's attentional network
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Visual Navigation: From Biological Systems to Unmanned Ground Vehicles » Read Now
by Yiannis Aloimonos. 426 pgs.

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Visual Coding and Adaptability » Read Now
by Charles S. Harris. 394 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

For students & researchers in vision, perception, cognition, & artificial intelligence; coverage of two areas in visual research: adaptability of the visual system, & the coding of spatial information.
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Visual Processes in Reading and Reading Disabilities » Read Now
by Dale M. Willows, Richard S. Kruk, Evelyne M. Corcos. 506 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...Reading disability . 3. Visual perception . I. Willows, Dale M. II...processes in reading. He describes visual perception as a unitary experience that...Venezky, 1977 ...
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Theories of Visual Perception » Read Now
by Ian E. Gordon. 256 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Theories of Visual Perception 3rd Edition provides clear critical accounts of several of the major approaches to the challenge of explaining how we see the world. It explains why approaches to theories of visual perception differ so widely and places each theory into its historical and...
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Theories of Visual Perception 3rd Edition provides clear critical accounts of several of the major approaches to the challenge of explaining how we see the world. It explains why approaches to theories of visual perception differ so widely and places each theory into its historical and philosophical context. Coverage ranges from early theories by such influential writers as Helmholtz and the Gestalt School, to more recent work in the field of Artificial Intelligence. This fully revised and expanded edition contains new material on the Minimum Principle in perception, neural networks, and cognitive brain imaging.
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