1st Edition

Visual Coding and Adaptability

Edited By C. S. Harris Copyright 1981
402 Pages
by Psychology Press

405 Pages
by Psychology Press

First published in 1980. This book is the first integrated presentation of two of the most active areas in present-day visual research. Its inspiration and nucleus were provided by two Optical Society of America symposia, one on the coding of spatial information in the visual system and the other on adaptability of the visual system. Although the two topics might seem, at first sight, only... Read more
Preface, The Influence of Early Visual Experience on Visual Perception, The Development of Visually Guided Behavior, The Rediscovery of Adaptability in the Visual System: Effects of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Chromatic Dispersion, Insight or Out of Sight?: Two Examples of Perceptual Plasticity in the Human Adult, Locus Questions in Visual Science, Neural Images: The Physiological Basis of Spatial Vision, Spatial-Frequency Channels in Human Vision: Detecting Edges Without Edge Detectors, Spatial-Frequency Channels in One-, Two-, and Three-Dimensional Vision: Variations on an Auditory Theme by Bekesy, Masking and the Unmasking of Distributed Representations in the Visual System, Tutorial: The Joy of Fourier Analysis, Author Index, Subject Index

Biography

Charles S. Harris Bell Laboratories, New Jersey