Active Vision

The Psychology of Looking and Seeing
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-852479-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

Reihe: Oxford Psychology Series

This title focuses on vision as an active process, rather than a passive activity and provides an integrated account of seeing and looking. The authors give a thorough description of basic details of the visual and oculomotor systems necessary to understand active vision.

More than one third of the human brain is devoted to the processes of seeing - vision is after all the main way in which we gather information about the world. But human vision is a dynamic process during which the eyes continually sample the environment.

PASSIVE VISION AND ACTIVE VISION; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Passive vision; 1.3 Visual attention; 1.4 Active vision; 1.5 Active vision and vision for action; 1.6 Outline of the book; BACKGROUND TO ACTIVE VISION; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The inhomogeneity of the

Autoren/Hrsg.

Findlay, John M.

Gilchrist, Iain D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Experimentelle Psychologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Kognitivismus
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Augenheilkunde, Optometrie

Über Autor(innen)

(Reader in Neuropsychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol)