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Perceiving in Depth, Volume 3 - Other Mechanisms of Depth Perception (Hardcover, New)
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Perceiving in Depth, Volume 3 - Other Mechanisms of Depth Perception (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Psychology Series
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Perceiving in Depth is a sequel to Binocular Vision and Stereopsis
and to Seeing in Depth, both by Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers.
This three-volume work is much broader in scope than previous texts
and includes mechanisms of depth perception by all senses,
including aural, electrosensory organs, and the somatosensory
system. The work contains three extensively illustrated and
referenced volumes. Volume 1 reviews sensory coding, psychophysical
and analytic procedures, and basic visual mechanisms. Volume 2
reviews stereoscopic vision. Volume 3 reviews all mechanisms of
depth perception other than stereoscopic vision. Together, these
three volumes provide the most detailed review of all aspects of
perceiving the three-dimensional world. Volume 3 addresses all
depth-perception mechanisms other than stereopsis. The chapter
starts with reviews of monocular cues to depth. These cues include
accommodation, vergence eye movements, perspective, interposition,
shading, and motion parallax. A perceptual constancy is the ability
to judge a feature of a stimulus as constant in spite of variations
in the retinal image. Constancies in depth perception, such as the
ability to perceive the sizes, and 3-D shapes of objects as they
move or rotate are reviewed. The ways in which different depth cues
interact are discussed. They can complement each other, compete, or
interact so as to increase the range of depth perception. The next
chapter reviews sources of information, such as changing disparity,
image looming, and vergence eye movements, used in the perception
of objects moving in depth. Various pathologies of depth
perception, including visual neglect, stereoanomalies, and albanism
are reviewed. Visual depth-perception mechanisms through the animal
kingdom are reviewed, starting with insects and progressing though
crustaceans, fish, amphibians, retiles, birds, and mammals. Most
animals respond to image looming, and many use perspective and
motion parallax to detect depth. Stereoscopic vision based on
binocular disparity has evolved in some insects, frogs, and
mammals. The chapter includes a discussion of the way in which
stereoscopic vision may have evolved. The next chapter describes
how visual depth perception is used to guide reaching movements of
the hand, avoiding obstacles, and walking to a distant object. The
next three chapters review non-visual mechanisms of depth
perception. Auditory mechanisms include auditory localization,
echolocation in bats and marine mammals, and the lateral-line
system of fish. Some fish emit electric discharges and then use
electric sense organs to detect distortions of the electric field
produced by nearby objects. Some beetles and snakes use
heat-sensitive sense organs to detect sources of heat. The volume
ends with a discussion of mechanisms used by animals to navigate to
a distant site. Ants find their way back to the nest by using
landmarks and by integrating their walking movements. Several
animals navigate by the stars or by polarized sunlight. It seems to
be established that animals in several phyla navigate by detecting
the Earth's magnetic field.
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