The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision begins by introducing the reader to the anatomy of the eye and visual cortex and then proceeds to discuss image and representation, face recognition, printed word recognition, visual sematic memory and visual attention and perception.

Martha J. Farah is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow and carries out research on higher cortical functions.

List of Illustrations

viii

Series Editors' Preface

xvi

Preface

xviii

Acknowledgments

xx

Early Vision

1

(28)

From Local to Global Image Representation

29

(36)

The Problem of Visual Recognition

65

(17)

Object Recognition

82

(33)

Face Recognition

115

(32)

Word Recognition

147

(27)

Visual Attention

174

(32)

Hemispatial Neglect

206

(46)

Mental Imagery

252

(38)

Visual Awareness

290

(46)

References

336

(31)

Index

367

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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision

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