How Animals See the World Comparative Behavior, Biology, and Evolution of Vision
by Lazareva, Olga F.; Shimizu, Toru; Wasserman, Edward A.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-03-14
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
The visual world of animals is highly diverse and often very different from the world that we humans take for granted. This book provides an extensive review of the latest behavioral and neurobiological research on animal vision, highlighting fascinating species similarities and differences in visual processing. It contains 26 chapters written by world-leading experts about a variety of species including: honeybees, spiders, fish, birds, and primates. The chapters are divided into six sections: Perceptual grouping and segmentation, Object perception and object recognition, Motion perception, Visual attention, Different dimensions of visual perception, and Evolution of the visual system. An exhaustive work in range and depth, How Animals See the Worldwill be a valuable resource for advanced students and researchers in areas of cognitive psychology, perception and cognitive neuroscience, as well as researchers in the visual sciences.
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Perceptual Groupings and Segmentation | |
| What Birds See and What They Don't: Luminance, Contrast, and Spatial and Temporal Resolution | p. 5 |
| Color Vision in Goldfish and Other Vertebrates | p. 25 |
| Grouping and Early Visual Processing in Avian Vision | p. 43 |
| Figure-Ground Segregation and Object-Based Attention in Pigeons | p. 63 |
| Neurobiological Foundations of Figure-Ground Segregation in Primates | p. 77 |
| Illusory Perception in Animals: Observations and Interpretations | p. 93 |
| Amodal Completion and Illusory Perception in Birds and Primates | p. 101 |
| Neurobiology of Perception of Illusory Contours in Animals | p. 117 |
| Object Perception and Object Recognition | |
| How Jumping Spiders See the World | p. 133 |
| Visual Discrimination by the Honeybee (Apis mellifera) | p. 165 |
| Recognition-by-Components: A Bird's Eye View | p. 191 |
| Birds' Perception of Depth and Objects in Pictures | p. 217 |
| The Recognition of Rotated Objects in Animals | p. 233 |
| Neural Mechanisms of Object Recognition in Nonhuman Primates | p. 247 |
| Motion Perception | |
| Avian Visual Processing of Motion and Objects | p. 271 |
| Neural Mechanisms Underlying Visual Motion Detection in Birds | p. 289 |
| Primate Motion Perception | p. 319 |
| Visual Attention | |
| Primate Visual Attention: How Studies of Monkeys Have Shaped Theories of Selective Visual Processing | p. 335 |
| Selective and Divided Attention in Birds | p. 351 |
| Visual Cognition in Baboons: Attention to Global and Local Stimulus Properties | p. 371 |
| Different Dimensions of Visual Perception | |
| Circadian Visual System of Mammals | p. 389 |
| Evolution of Visual System | |
| Evolution of the Brain in Vertebrates: Overview | p. 419 |
| Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye | p. 441 |
| The Avian Visual System: Overview | p. 473 |
| Development of the Visual System in Birds and Mammals | p. 483 |
| Brain Asymmetry in Vertebrates | p. 501 |
| Postscript | |
| Why Comparative Studies of Vision Matter | p. 523 |
| Index | p. 529 |
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