Title | Vision and Attention [electronic resource] / edited by Michael Jenkin, Laurence Harris |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2001 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21591-4 |
Descript | XVII, 316 p. online resource |
1 Vision and Attention -- 1.1 What Is Attention? -- 1.2 Selective Visual Attention -- 1.3 Parsing Attention. Is Attention Central to the Act of Seeing or is it Merely a Servant Carrying its Master to the Right Place? -- 1.4 Directing Attention -- 1.5 Conclusions -- 2 Shifts of Attention and Saccades Are Very Similar. Are They Causally Linked? -- 2.1 Spatial Attributes of Attention -- 2.2 Coordinate Space of Focal Attention -- 2.3 Overt and Covert Orientation -- 2.4 Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Attentional Control -- 2.5 Shifting Attention -- 2.6 Coupling Between Saccadic Eye Movements and Attentional Shifts -- 2.7 Adaptive Control of Saccadic Eye Movements -- 2.8 Nature of the Error Signal -- 2.9 Are Shifts of Attention also Adaptable? -- 2.10 Might Attention Provide an Error Signal to Saccade-Gain Adaptation? -- 3 Contrast Gain, Area Summation and Temporal Tuning in Primate Visual Cortex -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Gain Control -- 3.3 Contrast-Gain Control -- 3.4 Beyond the Classical Receptive Field -- 3.5 Area Summation and Contrast -- 3.6 Temporal Tuning and Contrast -- 3.7 Temporal Tuning and Contrast in V1 -- 3.8 Discussion -- 4 Global Processes in Form Vision and Their Relationship to Spatial Attention -- 4.1 Introduction to the Ventral Visual Pathway -- 4.2 Components of Intermediate Form Analysis -- 4.3 Changing Views of V4 -- 4.4 Evidence for Global Orientation Pooling in Human Vision -- 4.5 Neural Model for Configurai Units -- 4.6 Configural Units and Receptive Field Size -- 4.7 Evidence Pointing to Configurai Units in V4 in the Human Brain -- 4.8 Application of V4 Model Units to Faces -- 4.9 Selective Attention -- 4.10 Summary and Overview -- 5 Visual Attention: The Active Vision Perspective -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Active Vision -- 5.3 Reading -- 5.4 Scenes and Objects -- 5.5 Search -- 5.6 Rethinking Covert Attention -- 5.7 Conclusion -- 6 Complexity, Vision, and Attention -- 6.1 What Is Computational Complexity? -- 6.2 Can Perception Be Modeled Computationally? -- 6.3 Visual Search -- 6.4 Complexity Level Analysis of Vision -- 6.5 The Selective-Tuning Model of Visual Attention -- 6.6 Conclusions -- 7 Motion-Disparity Interaction and the Scaling of Stereoscopic Disparity -- 7.1 Cue Combination in Depth Perception -- 7.2 Depth Scaling -- 7.3 Stereomotion Interaction for Depth Scaling -- 7.4 Summary -- 8 Signal Detection and Attention in Systems Governed By Multiplicative Noise -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Signal Detection Theory for Ideal and Non-ideal Observers -- 8.3 Distraction Theory -- 8.4 Effects of Multiplicative Noise -- 9 Change Blindness: Implications for the Nature of Visual Attention -- 9.1 Visual Attention: Role in Scene Perception -- 9.2 Visual Attention: Mechanisms -- 9.3 Concluding Remarks -- 10 The Role of Expectations in Change Detection and Attentional Capture -- 10.1 Change Blindness -- 10.2 Attentional Capture -- 10.3 Conclusions -- 11 Attention, Eye Movements, and Neurons: Linking Physiology and Behavior -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Attention and Saccades -- 11.3 Frontal Eye Field -- 11.4 Bottom-Up Influences on Visual Selection -- 11.5 Top-Down Influences on Visual Selection -- 11.6 Conclusions -- 12 Vision and Action in Virtual Environments: Modern Psychophysics in Spatial Cognition Research -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Biological Cybernetics -- 12.3 Enabling Technologies -- 12.4 Stimulus Control -- 12.5 Stimulus Relevance -- 12.6 Spatial Cognition in VEs -- 12.7 Concluding Remarks -- 13 Selective Feature-Based Attention Directed to a Pair of Lines: Psychophysical Evidence and a Psychophysical Model -- 13.1 Does the Visual System Contain Long-Distance Comparators with Orthogonal Orientation Difference and Mean-Orientation Labels? -- 13.2 Does the Visual System Contain Long Distance Comparators Whose Outputs Carry Orthogonal Mean-Location and Separation Labels? -- 13.3 Does the Visual System Contain Long-Distance Comparator Mechanisms Whose Outputs Carry Orthogonal Orientation Difference, Mean Orientation, Mean Location and Separation Labels? -- 13.4 How Do Discrimination Thresholds for Orientation Difference, Mean Orientation, Separation, and Relative Mean Location Vary as a Function of Contrast? -- 13.5 Attentional Implications and a Psychophysical Model -- 14 Thoughts on Change Blindness -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Thoughts on Normal Viewing: Where and What -- 14.3 The โWhereโ and โWhatโ Components of Change Detection -- 14.4 Thoughts on Disruptions -- 14.5 Other Issues Concerning the Theory -- 14.6 Conclusion -- Author Index