Perception of the Visual Environment

Chapter 1 Conceptual and Philosophical Issues: What Does It Mean to Assert That an Observer Perceives?

Chapter 2 Psychophysical Methods: What Scientific Procedures Can Be Used to Ask an Observer What Is Being Perceived?

Chapter 3 The Perceptual Environment: What Is Out There to Be Perceived?

Chapter 4 Sensing the Environment: What Mechanisms Are Used to Sample, Image, and Transduce Physical Stimulation from the Environment?

Chapter 5 Perceptual Processing I.Biological Hardware:What Properties of Neural Tissues Support Perceptual Processing in Humans and Monkeys?

Chapter 6 Perceptual Processing II. Abstractions: How Can Perceptual Processing Be Characterized and Modeled as Flow of Abstract Information?

Chapter 7 Color Vision: How Are Objective Wavelengths of Light Transformed into Secondary Qualities of Percepts Called Colors?

Chapter 8 Form Vision: How Is Information About Shapes of Objects Transferred from the Environment to Our Percepts?

Chapter 9 Perception of Three-Dimensional Space: How Do We Use Information Derived from One or Both Eyes to Perceive the Spatial Layout of Our Surroundings?

Chapter 10 Dynamic How-Perception: How Do We Perceive and React to Change and Motion?

Chapter 11 Perceptual Development: Where Does the Information Come from That Allows Perceptual Systems to Become Wired Together in Such a Manner That They Can Perceive?

Chapter 12 Higher-Order and Subjective Aspects of Perception: How Are Low-Level Stimulus Properties Transformed into High-Level Percept Qualities?