Pioneer Visual Neuroscience - A Festschrift for Naomi Weisstein

This book honors Naomi Weisstein's foreshortened span of work published from 1964 to 1992. Naomi Weisstein was a pioneer in the areas we now call visual neuroscience, visual cognition, and cognitive neuroscience.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Introduction James M. Brown & Patrick Cavanagh
Chapter 1: We're going to study the mind! James M. Brown & Harold H. Greene
Chapter 2: Phantom at the Holiday Inn. Patrick Cavanagh
Chapter 3: Top-Down Influences in Organization of Bottom-Up Visual Processing.
Bruno Breitmeyer
Chapter 4: Visual phantom illusion as an integrative product of early visual processing and higher-order perceptual organization. Jiro Gyoba, Kenzo Sakurai, & Akiyoshi
Kitaoka
Chapter 5: The Motion-Induced Contour Revisited.
Gennady Erlikhman & Gideon Paul Caplovitz
Chapter 6: Mathematical, Architectural, and Functional Foundations of Visual Masking.
Haluk Ogmen
Chapter 7: Spatial characteristics of a contrast-comparison process.
S. Sabina Wolfson & Norma Graham
Chapter 8: How to Find a Yellow Volkswagen. Jeremy Wolfe
Chapter 9: When Visual Attention Hurts. Elizabeth Fine and Adam Reeves
Chapter 10: On High-Level Influences on Perception: Then and Now. Mary A. Peterson
Chapter 11: The Role of Ground Features in the Perception of Figure-Ground and Subjective Contours. Barbara Gillam

About the author

James M. Brown is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia. He received his PhD from the University at Buffalo where he was Naomi Weisstein's last graduate student.

Summary

This book honors Naomi Weisstein’s foreshortened span of work published from 1964 to 1992. Naomi Weisstein was a pioneer in the areas we now call visual neuroscience, visual cognition, and cognitive neuroscience.

Product details

• Authors: James M. Brown, James M. (University of Georgia Brown
• Assisted by: James M. Brown (Editor), Brown James M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138048386
• ISBN: 978-1-138-04838-6
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Experimental Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Neurosciences, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology