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In this book the authors relate and discuss the idea that perceptual processes can be considered at many levels. A phenomenon that appears at one level may not be the same as a superficially similar phenomenon that appears at a different level. For example "induced motion" can be analyzed in terms of eye movements or at the retinal level or at a much higher cognitive level: how do these analyses fit together? The concept of levels also makes us think of the flow of information between levels, which leads to a consideration of the roles of top-down and bottom-up (or feed-forward, feed-back) flow. There are sections devoted to vestibular processing, eye movement processing and processing during brightness perception. The final section covers levels of processing in spatial vision. All scientists and graduate students working in vision will be interested in this book as well as people involved in using visual processes in computer animations, display design or the sensory systems of machines.
List of contents
Ian P. Howard and Levels of Perception.- Ian P. Howard and Levels of Perception.- Brightness and Lightness.- Dualistic Versus Monistic Accounts of Lightness Perception.- Levels of Brightness Perception.- A Multiscale Spatial Filtering Account of Brightness Phenomena.- Levels of Perception.- Levels of Motion Perception.- Reconciling Rival Interpretations of Binocular Rivalry.- The Making of a Direction Sensing System for the Howard Eggmobile.- Levels of Processing in the Size-Distance Paradox.- The Level of Attention: Mediating Between the Stimulus and Perception.- Single Cells to Cellular Networks.- Eye Movements and Perception.- Levels of Fixation.- Plasticity of the Near Response.- Population Coding of Vergence Eye Movements in Cortical Area MST.- Tendon End Organs Play an Important Role in Supplying Eye Position Information.- Perception of Orientation and Self-Motion.- Levels of Analysis of the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex: A Postmodern Approach.- Signal Processing in Vestibular Nuclei: Dissociating Sensory, Motor, and Cognitive Influences.- Neural Encoding of Gaze Dependencies During Translation.- Influence of Rotational Cues on the Neural Processing of Gravito-Inertial Force.- Human Visual Orientation in Weightlessness.- Three-Axis Approaches to Ocular Motor Control: A Role for the Cerebellum.
About the author
Michael Jenkin is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at York University. He has co-edited a series of eight books on human and machine vision.
Summary
In this book the authors relate and discuss the idea that perceptual processes can be considered at many levels. A phenomenon that appears at one level may not be the same as a superficially similar phenomenon that appears at a different level. For example "induced motion" can be analyzed in terms of eye movements or at the retinal level or at a much higher cognitive level: how do these analyses fit together? The concept of levels also makes us think of the flow of information between levels, which leads to a consideration of the roles of top-down and bottom-up (or feed-forward, feed-back) flow. There are sections devoted to vestibular processing, eye movement processing and processing during brightness perception. The final section covers levels of processing in spatial vision. All scientists and graduate students working in vision will be interested in this book as well as people involved in using visual processes in computer animations, display design or the sensory systems of machines.
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"Levels of Perception is a collection of papers from a 2001 conference held to honour Ian Howard. … This is an excellent additional resource … . this book would be an excellent way for students to begin thinking seriously about levels of perception and how to experimentally attack these levels rigorously. … achieves its main aim, namely to be a suitable tribute to the work of Ian Howard, and to the underlying philosophy driving that work." (Andrew Wilson, Perception, Vol. 32 (8), 2003)
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From the reviews:
"Levels of Perception is a collection of papers from a 2001 conference held to honour Ian Howard. ... This is an excellent additional resource ... . this book would be an excellent way for students to begin thinking seriously about levels of perception and how to experimentally attack these levels rigorously. ... achieves its main aim, namely to be a suitable tribute to the work of Ian Howard, and to the underlying philosophy driving that work." (Andrew Wilson, Perception, Vol. 32 (8), 2003)
