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Informationen zum Autor Michael Land is a Fellow of the Royal Society (1982), recipient of the Frink Medal of the Zoological Society of London (1994), ALCON Prize for Vision Research (1998), Rank Prize for Vision Research (1998).Ben Tatler - BA/MA in Natural Sciences, Cambridge (1998). PhD in Neuroscience, University of Sussex (2002). Postdoctoral researcher, Neuroscience, University of Sussex (2001-2004). Lecturer in Psychology, University of Dundee (2004-present). Klappentext The human visual system is amazing in its ability to guide us in a wide range of tasks - driving! reading! playing ball games! or reading music. Somehow our eyes just manage to find the information we need to perform such tasks. This book explores how our eyes process and communicate the data needed for us to negotiate the world around us. Zusammenfassung The human visual system is amazing in its ability to guide us in a wide range of tasks - driving, reading, playing ball games, or reading music. Somehow our eyes just manage to find the information we need to perform such tasks. This book explores how our eyes process and communicate the data needed for us to negotiate the world around us. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preliminaries 1: Introduction 2: The human eye movement repertoire 3: How our eyes question the world Observations 4: Sedentary tasks 5: Domestic tasks 6: Locomotion on foot 7: Driving 8: Ball games: when to look where? 9: Social roles of eye movements Commentaries 10: Representations of the visual world 11: Neuroscience of gaze and action 12: Attention, memory and learning
