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By Stephen E. Palmer

This e-book revolutionizes how imaginative and prescient might be taught to undergraduate and graduate scholars in cognitive technological know-how, psychology, and optometry. it's the first entire textbook on imaginative and prescient to mirror the built-in computational technique of smooth study scientists. This new interdisciplinary process, known as "vision science," integrates mental, computational, and neuroscientific perspectives.The ebook covers all significant themes relating to imaginative and prescient, from early neural processing of picture constitution within the retina to high-level visible realization, reminiscence, imagery, and understanding. The presentation all through is theoretically refined but calls for minimum wisdom of arithmetic. there's additionally an intensive word list, in addition to appendices on psychophysical equipment, connectionist modeling, and colour expertise. The ebook will serve not just as a complete textbook on imaginative and prescient, yet additionally as a worthwhile reference for researchers in cognitive technological know-how, psychology, neuroscience, machine technological know-how, optometry, and philosophy.

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The strong form of Gibson's claim for direct perception is an exception, but weaker forms of this view are quite compatible with the computational view taken in this book, as I explain in Chapter 2. " Experts on vision will naturally find aspects of it to which they take exception, but I believe the vast majority will find it consistent with most of their firmly held beliefs. The theoretical framework I advocate owes much to the influential proposals of the late David Marr and his colleagues at MIT, but this is true of the field in general.

Vision. 2. Visual perception. 3. Cognitive science. I. Title. 8'4dc21 99-11785 CIP Page v In loving memory of my mentor, colleague, and friend, Irvin Rock (1922-1995), who taught me more about visual perception than everyone else combined and who showed me by example what it means to be a scientist. 4 Is Grouping an Early or Late Process? 4 Visual Long-Term Memory 588 Three Types of LTM 588 Visual Routines 589 Recall versus Recognition 589 How Good Is Episodic Visual LTM? B. 3 Consciousness and the Limits of Science 656 Relational Structure 657 The Isomorphism Constraint 658 Relation to Functionalism 659 Biology to the Rescue?

3. Cognitive science. I. Title. 8'4dc21 99-11785 CIP Page v In loving memory of my mentor, colleague, and friend, Irvin Rock (1922-1995), who taught me more about visual perception than everyone else combined and who showed me by example what it means to be a scientist. 4 Is Grouping an Early or Late Process? 4 Visual Long-Term Memory 588 Three Types of LTM 588 Visual Routines 589 Recall versus Recognition 589 How Good Is Episodic Visual LTM? B. 3 Consciousness and the Limits of Science 656 Relational Structure 657 The Isomorphism Constraint 658 Relation to Functionalism 659 Biology to the Rescue?

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