Seeing

Contributors.
Foreward.
Preface.
Formation and Sampling of the Retinal Image:
Introduction.
Formation of the Retinal Image.
Neural Sampling of the Retinal Image.
Optical versus Sampling Limits to Vision.
The Receptive Fields of Visual Neurons:
Introduction.
Receptive Fields of Retinal Ganglion Cells.
Visual Cortex.
Spacial Vision:
Introduction.
Single Neurons and Behavior.
Window of Visibility.
Optics and Photon Noise.
Retina and Lateral Geniculate Nucleus.
Primary Visual Cortex.
Implications for Object Recognition and Scene Interpretation.
References.
Color Vision:
Introduction.
Physiology.
Chromatic Discriminations and Their Physiological Bases.
Color Appearance and Its Physiological Bases.
The Role of Color in Spatial Vision.
References.
Binocular Vision:
Perceived Visual Direction.
Binocular Correspondence.
Binocular Sensory Fusion.
Encoding Disparity: The Matching Problem.
Stereoscopic Depth Perception.
Occlusion Stereopsis.
Binocular Suppression.
Seeing Motion:
Overview.
Representing Image Motion.
Analyzing Direction of Motion along a Given Axis.
Integrating Motion Signals from Different Axes.
Second-Order Motion Mechanisms.
Conclusions.
The Neural Representation of Shape:
Introduction.
Organization of the Ventral Pathway.
Physiological Properties.
Attention, Learning, Memory, and Motor Signals.
Computational Principles.
Current Research in the Neurobiology of Form Vision.
References.
Visual Attention:
Introduction.
Vision before Attention.
Vision with Attention.
Vision after Attention.
Vision without Attention.
Conclusion.
References.
Index.