Visual Cognition Books

New and Published Books

1. Computational Approaches to Reading and Scene Perception

   Edited by John Henderson

   Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

   What we see and understand about the visual world is tightly tied to where we direct our eyes. High-resolution visual information is acquired from only a very limited region of the scene surrounding the fixation point, with the quality of visual input falling off precipitously from central vision...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Psychology Press
2. Visual Perception

   An Introduction, 3rd Edition

   By Nicholas Wade, Mike Swanston

   Does the world appear the same to everyone? Does what we know determine what we see? Why do we see the world as we do? Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that enters our eyes to the complex cognitive processes that follow, we derive most of our information about what things are,...

   Published October 23rd 2012 by Psychology Press
3. From Mental Imagery to Spatial Cognition and Language

   Essays in Honour of Michel Denis

   Edited by Valérie Gyselinck, Francesca Pazzaglia

   Series: Psychology Press Festschrift Series

   The nature of mental images and their relation to language has caused controversy amongst psychologists for years, and the so-called "imagery debate" is still unresolved. Fresh light is now being shed on this topic using recent findings in neuroscience and the development of behavioural studies....

   Published April 1st 2012 by Psychology Press
4. Rehabilitation of Visual Disorders After Brain Injury

   2nd Edition

   By Josef Zihl

   Series: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: A Modular Handbook

   This thoroughly updated and extended edition covers the various cerebral visual disorders acquired after brain injury, as well as the rehabilitation techniques used to treat them. These are described within a brain plasticity framework, using data from single and group case studies along with...

   Published October 28th 2010 by Psychology Press
5. Tutorials in Visual Cognition

   Edited by Veronika Coltheart

   Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

   In the late-1980s, visual cognition was a small subfield of cognitive psychology, and the standard texts mainly discussed just iconic memory in their sections on visual cognition. In the subsequent two decades, and especially very recently, many remarkable new aspects of the processing of...

   Published January 26th 2010 by Psychology Press
6. Eye Guidance in Natural Scenes

   A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

   Edited by Benjamin W. Tatler

   Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

   Successfully completing many forms of behaviour requires that humans look in the right place at the right time: This has generated a large volume of research aimed at understanding how the eyes are guided. This special issue demonstrates that the decision about where to look involves a large number...

   Published September 23rd 2009 by Psychology Press
7. Cognitive and Cultural Influences on Eye Movements

   Edited by Keith Rayner, Deli Shen, Xuejun Bai, Guoli Yan

   It is well-known that cognitive variables influence eye movements during reading. To what extent do cultural differences influence eye movements? This volume contains chapters that examine these two issues. The first half of the volume documents recent research findings with respect to models of...

   Published May 10th 2009 by Psychology Press
8. Binding

   A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

   Edited by James R. Brockmole, Steven L. Franconeri

   Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

   Visual processing acts as a prism, splitting visual information from the retinal image into separately processed features such as color, shape, and orientation. Binding refers to the set of cognitive and neural mechanisms that re-integrate these features to create a holistic representation of the...

   Published February 26th 2009 by Psychology Press
9. The Visual World in Memory

   Edited by James R. Brockmole

   Series: Current Issues in Memory

   The book examines how well we remember what we see. Research in human memory for visual material varies tremendously across the time scales, stimuli, and scenarios of interest. Because of these distinct pursuits, research in the field of 'visual memory' is in practice rather compartmentalized and...

   Published October 7th 2008 by Psychology Press
10. Verbalising Visual Memories

    A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

    Edited by Toby J. Lloyd-Jones, Maria A. Brandimonte, Karl-Heinz Bäuml

    Series: Special Issues of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology

    This special issue, Verbalising Visual Memories, comprises research on: (a) verbal interference and facilitation in face and person processing; (b) similarities and differences between effects of verbalisation and processing in the Navon task (Navon, 1977); and (c) effects of verbalisation in...

    Published May 30th 2008 by Psychology Press