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Readings and References

There are many, many books on visual perception that will give you far more detail on the subject than this book does. Amongst them are Palmer (1999) and Wandell (1996) which provide an account of vision from a psychological perspective. Hubel (1988) provides a more physiological perspective. Many find the book by Tom Cornsweet (1970) very easy to read and informative. For coverage of the 'higher' aspects of vision, the books by Martha Farah (2000) and by Milner and Goodale (1995) are excellent. Finally, recent research has begun to look more at how vision is used, as well as how it is done, and the book by John Findlay and Iain Gilchrist (2003) provides a perspective from this angle.

Papers on specific issues

Illusions: Some of the classic old illusions are well described in Ittelson and Kilpatrick (1951) and Gregory (1968). For a more up-to-date approach and more reference to the underlying neural structures see Eagleman (2001).

Multiple visual areas: For an overview of these areas in both humans and non-human primates see Tootell et al. (1996).

 

References

Cornsweet, T. N. (1970) Visual perception. London: Academic Press.  ↑

Eagleman, D. M. (2001). Visual illusions and neurobiology. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2(12), 920-926. [PubMed: 11733799] [DOI: 10.1038/35104092]  ↑

Farah, M. J. (2000) The cognitive neuroscience of vision. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.  ↑

Felleman, D. J. and Van Essen, D. C. (1991). Distributed hierarchical processing in primate cerebral cortex. Cerebral Cortex 1, 1-47. [PubMed: 1822724]

Findlay, J. M. and Gilchrist, I. D. (2003) Active vision : the psychology of looking and seeing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  ↑

Gregory, R. L. (1968). Visual illusions. Scientific American 219, November, 66-76. [PubMed: 5680232]  ↑

Hubel, D. H. (1988) Eye, brain and vision. New York: Scientific American Press.  ↑

Ishihara, S. (1960). Tests for colour-blindness, 15th edition, Tokyo: Handaya Company.↑

Ittelson, W. H. and Kilpatrick, F. P. (1951). Experiments in perception. Scientific American 185, August, 50-55.  ↑

Milner, A. D. and Goodale, M. A. (1995) The visual brain in action. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  ↑

Palmer, S. E. (1999) Vision science: photons to phenomenology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  ↑

Tootell, R. B. H., Dale, A. M., Sereno, M. I., and Malach, R. (1996). New images from human visual cortex. Trends in Neuroscience 19, 481-489.  ↑

Wandell, B. (1996) Foundations of vision. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.  ↑

Yarbus, A. L. (1967) Eye movements and vision. Plenum Press, New York.