Visual Psychophysics And Physiology

Author : John Armington
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 507 pages
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Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780323147781

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Visual Psychophysics and Physiology: A Volume Dedicated to Lorrin Riggs illustrates a particular approach to the study of vision. It also celebrates Lorrin Riggs' retirement from formal teaching duties. During his teaching career Riggs advised and directed about fifty doctoral and postdoctoral students, many of whom wrote the chapters that make up this volume. The book is organized into six parts. Part 1 explains the approach to the study of vision, thus providing the philosophical theme for the chapters that follow. Part 2 on physiological mechanisms presents examples of comparative and physiological investigations. Part 3 on sensitivity and adaptation examines new research that bears directly upon the classical problems of visual psychophysics. Here, there is an initial concern with measurement, visual sensitivity, scaling, and adaptation. Part 4 discusses research on color vision while Part 5 on acuity, contrast, and movement considers some of the factors that contribute to these perceptions. Part 6 deals with applications of visual science to other disciplines. Specific examples are given that link visual research with ophthalmology, child development, and the investigation of cognitive variables such as meaning, activation, and so forth.

Author : Dorothea Jameson,L.M. Hurvich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 822 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642886584

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Visual Psychophysics by Dorothea Jameson,L.M. Hurvich Pdf

This volume on Visual Psychophysics documents the current status of research aimed toward understanding the intricacies of the visual mechanism and its laws of operation in intact human perceivers. As can be seen from the list of contributors, the problems of vision engage the interest and experimental ingenuity of investi gators from a variety of disciplines. Thus we find authors affiliated with depart ments of biology, medical and physiological physics, ophthalmology, physics, physiology and anatomy, psychology, laboratories of neurophysiology, medical clinics, schools of optometry, visual and othcr types of research institutes. A continuing interplay between psychophysical studies and physiological work is everywhere evident. As more information about the physiological basis of vision accumulates, and new studies and analyses of receptor photochemistry and the neurophysiology of retina and brain appear, psychophysical studies of the intact organism become more sharply focused, sometimes more complex, and often more specialized. Technological advances have increased the variety and precision of the stimulus controls, and advances in measurement techniques have reopened old problems and stimulated the investigation of new ones. In some cases, new concepts are being drawn in to help further our under standing of the laws by which the visual mechanism operates; in other cases, ideas enunciated long ago have been reevaluated, developed more fully, and reified in terms of converging evidence from both psychophysical experiments and unit recordings from visual cells.

Author : Dorothea Jameson,L.M. Hurvich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 812 pages
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Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3642886604

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Visual Psychophysics by Dorothea Jameson,L.M. Hurvich Pdf

This volume on Visual Psychophysics documents the current status of research aimed toward understanding the intricacies of the visual mechanism and its laws of operation in intact human perceivers. As can be seen from the list of contributors, the problems of vision engage the interest and experimental ingenuity of investi gators from a variety of disciplines. Thus we find authors affiliated with depart ments of biology, medical and physiological physics, ophthalmology, physics, physiology and anatomy, psychology, laboratories of neurophysiology, medical clinics, schools of optometry, visual and othcr types of research institutes. A continuing interplay between psychophysical studies and physiological work is everywhere evident. As more information about the physiological basis of vision accumulates, and new studies and analyses of receptor photochemistry and the neurophysiology of retina and brain appear, psychophysical studies of the intact organism become more sharply focused, sometimes more complex, and often more specialized. Technological advances have increased the variety and precision of the stimulus controls, and advances in measurement techniques have reopened old problems and stimulated the investigation of new ones. In some cases, new concepts are being drawn in to help further our under standing of the laws by which the visual mechanism operates; in other cases, ideas enunciated long ago have been reevaluated, developed more fully, and reified in terms of converging evidence from both psychophysical experiments and unit recordings from visual cells.

Author : Vicki Bruce,Patrick R. Green,Mark A. Georgeson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0863774512

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Visual Perception by Vicki Bruce,Patrick R. Green,Mark A. Georgeson Pdf

This edition contains over 460 additional references and the treatment of visual psychology in the early chapters has been extensively revised.

Author : Dorothea Jameson,L.M. Hurvich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1972-06-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3540051465

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Visual Psychophysics by Dorothea Jameson,L.M. Hurvich Pdf

This volume on Visual Psychophysics documents the current status of research aimed toward understanding the intricacies of the visual mechanism and its laws of operation in intact human perceivers. As can be seen from the list of contributors, the problems of vision engage the interest and experimental ingenuity of investi gators from a variety of disciplines. Thus we find authors affiliated with depart ments of biology, medical and physiological physics, ophthalmology, physics, physiology and anatomy, psychology, laboratories of neurophysiology, medical clinics, schools of optometry, visual and othcr types of research institutes. A continuing interplay between psychophysical studies and physiological work is everywhere evident. As more information about the physiological basis of vision accumulates, and new studies and analyses of receptor photochemistry and the neurophysiology of retina and brain appear, psychophysical studies of the intact organism become more sharply focused, sometimes more complex, and often more specialized. Technological advances have increased the variety and precision of the stimulus controls, and advances in measurement techniques have reopened old problems and stimulated the investigation of new ones. In some cases, new concepts are being drawn in to help further our under standing of the laws by which the visual mechanism operates; in other cases, ideas enunciated long ago have been reevaluated, developed more fully, and reified in terms of converging evidence from both psychophysical experiments and unit recordings from visual cells.

Author : John C. Armington,John Krauskopf,Billy Rex Wooten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:477108697

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Visual Psychophysics and Physiology by John C. Armington,John Krauskopf,Billy Rex Wooten Pdf

Author : J. D. Mollon,L. T. Sharpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015008579420

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Colour Vision by J. D. Mollon,L. T. Sharpe Pdf

Author : Vicki Bruce,Patrick R. Green,Mark A. Georgeson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1841692387

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Visual Perception by Vicki Bruce,Patrick R. Green,Mark A. Georgeson Pdf

This edition contains over 460 additional references and the treatment of visual psychology in the early chapters has been extensively revised.

Author : H. Autrum,P. O. Bishop,V. Braitenberg,K. L. Chow,R. L. De Valois,R. B. Freeman,W. A. van de Grind,O.-J. Grüsser,U. Grüsser-Cornehls,R. Jung,W. R. Levick,H.-U. Lunkenheimer,D. M. MacKay,M. Snyder,J. Stone,N. J. Strausfeld,I. Thomas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642653520

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Central Processing of Visual Information A: Integrative Functions and Comparative Data by H. Autrum,P. O. Bishop,V. Braitenberg,K. L. Chow,R. L. De Valois,R. B. Freeman,W. A. van de Grind,O.-J. Grüsser,U. Grüsser-Cornehls,R. Jung,W. R. Levick,H.-U. Lunkenheimer,D. M. MacKay,M. Snyder,J. Stone,N. J. Strausfeld,I. Thomas Pdf

The present volume covers the physiology of the visual system beyond the optic nerve. It is a continuation of the two preceding parts on the photochemistry and the physiology of the eye, and forms a bridge from them to the fourth part on visual psychophysics. These fields have all developed as independent speciali ties and need integrating with each other. The processing of visual information in the brain cannot be understood without some knowledge of the preceding mechanisms in the photoreceptor organs. There are two fundamental reasons, ontogenetic and functional, why this is so: 1) the retina of the vertebrate eye has developed from a specialized part of the brain; 2) in processing their data the eyes follow physiological principles similar to the visual brain centres. Peripheral and central functions should also be discussed in context with their final synthesis in subjective experience, i. e. visual perception. Microphysiology and ultramicroscopy have brought new insights into the neuronal basis of vision. These investigations began in the periphery: HARTLINE'S pioneering experiments on single visual elements of Limulus in 1932 started a successful period of neuronal recordings which ascended from the retina to the highest centres in the visual brain. In the last two decades modern electron microscopic techniques and photochemical investigations of single photoreceptors further contributed to vision research.

Author : John C. Baird
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483157337

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Psychophysical Analysis of Visual Space by John C. Baird Pdf

Psychophysical Analysis of Visual Space focuses on the use of psychophysics in the analysis of visual space, with emphasis on space perception and physiological optics. Topics covered include null-size judgment, ratio-size judgment, frontal-size judgment, and distance judgment, as well as selected physiological correlates of size and distance judgments. A theoretical analysis of model reduction is also presented. This volume consists of 11 chapters and opens with an overview of basic definitions and evidence in support of the constancy hypothesis. A psychophysical approach to the problems of visual space is described. The reader is then introduced to null-size judgment, ratio-size judgment, frontal-size judgment, and distance judgment, with emphasis on the importance of the retina as a reference for spatial judgments and how size judgments of targets at different distances can be related to judgments of targets at a constant distance. Some of the important relationships between ocular physiology and size-distance judgments are also examined, paying particular attention to size and distance judgments which relate to the variables of convergence, accommodation, angle-of-regard, and binocular disparity. The remaining chapters look at two stimulus correlates of distance judgments: frontal size and longitudinal size. This book will be of interest to physiologists, physicists, and experimental psychologists.

Author : H. Autrum,P. O. Bishop,V. Braitenberg,K. L. Chow,R. L. De Valois,R. B. Freeman,W. A. van de Grind,O.-J. Grüsser,U. Grüsser-Cornehls,R. Jung,W. R. Levick,H.-U. Lunkenheimer,D. M. MacKay,M. Snyder,J. Stone,N. J. Strausfeld,I. Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 1973-11-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3540057692

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Central Processing of Visual Information A: Integrative Functions and Comparative Data by H. Autrum,P. O. Bishop,V. Braitenberg,K. L. Chow,R. L. De Valois,R. B. Freeman,W. A. van de Grind,O.-J. Grüsser,U. Grüsser-Cornehls,R. Jung,W. R. Levick,H.-U. Lunkenheimer,D. M. MacKay,M. Snyder,J. Stone,N. J. Strausfeld,I. Thomas Pdf

The present volume covers the physiology of the visual system beyond the optic nerve. It is a continuation of the two preceding parts on the photochemistry and the physiology of the eye, and forms a bridge from them to the fourth part on visual psychophysics. These fields have all developed as independent speciali ties and need integrating with each other. The processing of visual information in the brain cannot be understood without some knowledge of the preceding mechanisms in the photoreceptor organs. There are two fundamental reasons, ontogenetic and functional, why this is so: 1) the retina of the vertebrate eye has developed from a specialized part of the brain; 2) in processing their data the eyes follow physiological principles similar to the visual brain centres. Peripheral and central functions should also be discussed in context with their final synthesis in subjective experience, i. e. visual perception. Microphysiology and ultramicroscopy have brought new insights into the neuronal basis of vision. These investigations began in the periphery: HARTLINE'S pioneering experiments on single visual elements of Limulus in 1932 started a successful period of neuronal recordings which ascended from the retina to the highest centres in the visual brain. In the last two decades modern electron microscopic techniques and photochemical investigations of single photoreceptors further contributed to vision research.

Author : H. Autrum,P. O. Bishop,V. Braitenberg,K. L. Chow,R. L. De Valois,R. B. Freeman,W. A. van de Grind,O.-J. Grüsser,U. Grüsser-Cornehls,R. Jung,W. R. Levick,H.-U. Lunkenheimer,D. M. MacKay,M. Snyder,J. Stone,N. J. Strausfeld,I. Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 1973-11-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3540057692

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Central Processing of Visual Information A: Integrative Functions and Comparative Data by H. Autrum,P. O. Bishop,V. Braitenberg,K. L. Chow,R. L. De Valois,R. B. Freeman,W. A. van de Grind,O.-J. Grüsser,U. Grüsser-Cornehls,R. Jung,W. R. Levick,H.-U. Lunkenheimer,D. M. MacKay,M. Snyder,J. Stone,N. J. Strausfeld,I. Thomas Pdf

The present volume covers the physiology of the visual system beyond the optic nerve. It is a continuation of the two preceding parts on the photochemistry and the physiology of the eye, and forms a bridge from them to the fourth part on visual psychophysics. These fields have all developed as independent speciali ties and need integrating with each other. The processing of visual information in the brain cannot be understood without some knowledge of the preceding mechanisms in the photoreceptor organs. There are two fundamental reasons, ontogenetic and functional, why this is so: 1) the retina of the vertebrate eye has developed from a specialized part of the brain; 2) in processing their data the eyes follow physiological principles similar to the visual brain centres. Peripheral and central functions should also be discussed in context with their final synthesis in subjective experience, i. e. visual perception. Microphysiology and ultramicroscopy have brought new insights into the neuronal basis of vision. These investigations began in the periphery: HARTLINE'S pioneering experiments on single visual elements of Limulus in 1932 started a successful period of neuronal recordings which ascended from the retina to the highest centres in the visual brain. In the last two decades modern electron microscopic techniques and photochemical investigations of single photoreceptors further contributed to vision research.

Author : Helga Kolb,Eduardo Fernandez,Ralph Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:503519994

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Webvision by Helga Kolb,Eduardo Fernandez,Ralph Nelson Pdf

Author : Zhong-Lin Lu,Barbara Dosher
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262019453

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Visual Psychophysics by Zhong-Lin Lu,Barbara Dosher Pdf

A comprehensive treatment of the skills and techniques needed for visual psychophysics, from basic tools to sophisticated data analysis. Vision is one of the most active areas in biomedical research, and visual psychophysical techniques are a foundational methodology for this research enterprise. Visual psychophysics, which studies the relationship between the physical world and human behavior, is a classical field of study that has widespread applications in modern vision science. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this textbook provides a comprehensive treatment of visual psychophysics, teaching not only basic techniques but also sophisticated data analysis methodologies and theoretical approaches. It begins with practical information about setting up a vision lab and goes on to discuss the creation, manipulation, and display of visual images; timing and integration of displays with measurements of brain activities and other relevant techniques; experimental designs; estimation of behavioral functions; and examples of psychophysics in applied and clinical settings. The book's treatment of experimental designs presents the most commonly used psychophysical paradigms, theory-driven psychophysical experiments, and the analysis of these procedures in a signal-detection theory framework. The book discusses the theoretical underpinnings of data analysis and scientific interpretation, presenting data analysis techniques that include model fitting, model comparison, and a general framework for optimized adaptive testing methods. It includes many sample programs in Matlab with functions from Psychtoolbox, a free toolbox for real-time experimental control. Once students and researchers have mastered the material in this book, they will have the skills to apply visual psychophysics to cutting-edge vision science.

Author : Nigel W. Daw
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461490593

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Visual Development by Nigel W. Daw Pdf

The only book on the market to cover the psychophysics, anatomy, physiology, and clinical deficits of the developing visual system in an accessible format and length. The visual system is the most commonly studied aspect of the nervous system and is the primary model for the study of both normal development and the effects of environment and sensory deprivation on development. This third edition highlights new research and features a large number of illustrations, many in color. It can be used as a supplementary text in neuroscience and ophthalmology courses. This book is a great resource for both novice and advanced researchers in the field of vision.