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This comprehensively updated and expanded revision of the successful second edition continues to provide detailed coverage of the ever-growing range of research topics in vision.

• Part I.
  • The Physiological Basis of Visual Perception.
  • Light and Eyes.
  • The Neurophysiology of the Retina.
  • Visual Pathways in the Brain.
• Part II.
  • Processing Retinal Images.
  • Approaches to the Psychology of Visual Perception.
  • Images, Filters and Features: The Primal Sketch.
  • Perceptual Organisation.
  • Perceiving Depth.
  • The Computation of Image Motion.
  • Object Recognition.
  • Connectionist Models of Visual Perception.
• Part III.
  • Visual Information for the Control of Action.
  • Introduction to the Ecological Approach to Visual Perception.
  • Visual Guidance Of Animal Locomotion.
  • Visual Guidance of Human Action.
  • Theories of the Control of Action.
  • Event Perception.
  • Perception of the Social World.
• Part IV.
  • Conclusions.
  • Contrasting Theories of Visual Perception.

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