Visual Cognition Books

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21. Visual Social Cognition

    A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

    Edited by Elaine Fox

    Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

    It is widely recognized that visual processes modulate many social interactions. For example, the eye-gaze of another person is a powerful cue to guide attention to a particular part of the visual field. Conversely, a direct gaze may indicate potential threat or the opportunity for a sexual...

    Published March 30th 2005 by Psychology Press
22. Theories of Visual Perception

    By Ian E. Gordon

    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...

    Published September 29th 2004 by Psychology Press
23. Visual Space Perception and Action

    A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

    Edited by Jochen Müsseler, A.H.C. Van der Heijden, Dirk Kerzel

    Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

    Vision is not an end in itself. Instead, it has evolved to assure survival in a dynamic environment. Vision - as well as the other senses - evolved from the necessity to act in this environment. Therefore, perceptual processes and action planning are much more interlocked than evident at first...

    Published March 17th 2004 by Psychology Press
24. Independence and Integration of Perception and Action

    A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

    Edited by Robert Ward

    Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

    The remarkable complexity and sophistication of our perceptual systems have evolved for ultimately one purpose - to promote efficient and effective action within a constantly changing environment. Traditionally, the route from perception to action has often been viewed as a single, one-directional...

    Published May 22nd 2002 by Psychology Press
25. Rehabilitation of Visual Disorders After Brain Injury

    By Josef Zihl

    Series: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: A Modular Handbook

    Despite a long research tradition in visual neuroscience, the rehabilitation of cerebral visual deficits has, until recently, been neglected. This book is the first to report systematic observations on spontaneous recovery of cerebral visual deficits after acquired brain injury, and the outcome of...

    Published August 15th 2001 by Psychology Press
26. Neural Binding of Space and Time: Spatial and Temporal Mechanisms of Feature-object Binding

    A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

    Edited by Mark Elliott, Christoph Hermann, Axel Mecklinger, Hermann Muller

    Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

    Some of the central problems to be solved by the brain, such as figure-ground coding and object recognition, concern the binding of separately coded feature elements into coherent object representations. The binding problem has recently been approached by a variety of disciplines, notably...

    Published August 8th 2001 by Psychology Press
27. Attention and Pattern Recognition

    By Nick Lund, Nick Lund

    Series: Routledge Modular Psychology

    Whilst attention is a term commonly used in everyday life, for many years psychologists have struggled in their attempts to explain what it actually means. Attention and Pattern Recognition introduces the main psychological research on attention and the methods that have been used to study it. It...

    Published April 25th 2001 by Routledge
28. Case Studies in the Neuropsychology of Vision

    Edited by Glyn W. Humphreys

    One important means to understanding normal cognitive functions is the study of the breakdown of these functions following brain damage. This book provides reviews of major case studies dealing with the breakdown of visual perception and recognition, including the disorders of motion vision, colour...

    Published February 7th 2001 by Psychology Press
29. Change Blindness and Visual Memory

    A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

    Edited by Daniel J. Simons

    Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

    A central goal in the study of object and scene perception is to understand how visual information is integrated across views to provide a stable, continuous experience of our environment. Research on issues ranging from visual masking to priming across saccades to the representation of spatial...

    Published February 9th 2000 by Psychology Press
30. Perception and Action: Recent Advances in Cognitive Neuropsychology

    A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

    Edited by Jean Decety

    Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychology

    Perception and Action have long been considered as two separate information processes and have accordingly been investigated in relative isolation from one another. However, it is now acknowledged that perception and action are functionally related. This special issue presents original...

    Published January 24th 1999 by Psychology Press