1st Edition

Pioneer Visual Neuroscience A Festschrift for Naomi Weisstein

Edited By James M. Brown Copyright 2019
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

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. Her enthusiastic pursuit of the mind was infectious, inspiring many others to take up the challenge. Despite her time as an active researcher being cut short, Weisstein’s impact was far... Read more

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

Biography

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.