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Active Vision - The Psychology of Looking and Seeing (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R2,441
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Active Vision - The Psychology of Looking and Seeing (Paperback, New): John M. Findlay, Iain D. Gilchrist

Active Vision - The Psychology of Looking and Seeing (Paperback, New)

John M. Findlay, Iain D. Gilchrist

Series: Oxford Psychology Series, 37

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More than one third of the human brain is devoted to the processes of seeing - vision is after all the main way in which we gather information about the world. But human vision is a dynamic process during which the eyes continually sample the environment. Where most books on vision consider it as a passive activity, this book is unique in focusing on vision as an 'active' process. It goes beyond most accounts of vision where the focus is on seeing, to provide an integrated account of seeing AND looking.

The book starts by pointing out the weaknesses in our traditional approaches to vision and the reason we need this new approach. It then gives a thorough description of basic details of the visual and oculomotor systems necessary to understand active vision. The book goes on to show how this approach can give a new perspective on visual attention, and how the approach has progressed in the areas of visual orienting, reading, visual search, scene perception and neuropsychology. Finally, the book summarises progress by showing how this approach sheds new light on the old problem of how we maintain perception of a stable visual world.

Written by two leading vision scientists, this book will be valuable for vision researchers and psychology students, from undergraduate level upwards.

General

Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Psychology Series, 37
Release date: August 2003
First published: August 2003
Authors: John M. Findlay • Iain D. Gilchrist
Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 236
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-852479-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Physiological & neuro-psychology
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Cognitive theory
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences
LSN: 0-19-852479-X
Barcode: 9780198524793

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