Vision and Attention [Paperback]

This is at once a review and a summary of the tremendous advances that have been made in recent years on the effect of attention on visual perception. This broad-ranging volume will appeal to vision scientists as well as to those involved in using visual processes in computer animations, display design or the sensory systems of machines. Physiologists and neuroscientists interested in any aspect of sensory or motor processes will also find it very useful.It has become apparent that vision is not a passive process working on the retinal image like a film to record a perfect copy as the perception. Instead, higher-level cognitive processes such as expectancies, memories and experience play a critical, almost overriding role. This book is a review and summary of the tremendous advances that have been made in recent years on the effect of attention on visual perception. The book will appeal to vision scientists as well as to people involved in using visual processes in computer animations, display design or the sensory systems of machines. Physiologists and neuroscientists interested in any aspect of sensory or motor processes will also find this a very useful and broad-ranging volume.1 Vision and Attention.- 1.1 What Is Attention?.- 1.1.1 Should attention be regarded as a discrete behaviour?.- 1.2 Selective Visual Attention.- 1.2.1 What is selected?.- 1.2.2 How is selection achieved? How much salience is due to the sensory input itself and how much to higher processes?.- 1.2.3 What is the connection between selection and attention?.- 1.2.4 Mechanisms of selective 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 Bottoml9