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May 1999
832 pp., 667 illus., 20 color
$84.00/£44.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-16183-4
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-16183-1

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Bradford Books
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Vision Science
Photons to Phenomenology
Stephen E. Palmer

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This book revolutionizes how vision can be taught to undergraduate and graduate students in cognitive science, psychology, and optometry. It is the first comprehensive textbook on vision to reflect the integrated computational approach of modern research scientists. This new interdisciplinary approach, called "vision science," integrates psychological, computational, and neuroscientific perspectives.

The book covers all major topics related to vision, from early neural processing of image structure in the retina to high-level visual attention, memory, imagery, and awareness. The presentation throughout is theoretically sophisticated yet requires minimal knowledge of mathematics. There is also an extensive glossary, as well as appendices on psychophysical methods, connectionist modeling, and color technology. The book will serve not only as a comprehensive textbook on vision, but also as a valuable reference for researchers in cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, computer science, optometry, and philosophy.


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"This is a monumental work, covering a wide range of topics, both classical findings and recent approaches on the frontiers of research."
Anne Treisman, Princeton University





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