Title: A Vision of the Brain
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- Author: Semir Zeki
- Publisher: Blackwell Science Ltd
- Year: 1993
- ISBN: 0-632-03054-2
- Description: Basically covers the same topics as Hubel's "Eye, brain
and vision" but the material (and jargon) appears to be more recent. Color vision is
the most prominent topic. Contains interesting information about visual system research in
the past as well.
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Title: An introduction to the visual system
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- Author: Martin J. Tovee
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Year: 1996
- ISBN: 0-521-48339-5
- Description: Explains the subsytems of the visual system (V1, V2..) very
well, and it is easy to read material.
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Title: Eye, brain, and vision
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- Author: David H. Hubel
- Publisher: Scientific American Library
- Year: 1988, 1995
- ISBN: 0-7167-6009-6
- Description: The architecture of the visual cortex, development, color
vision, stereopsis and much more. An excellent book. A must-read. This paperback edition
is quite affordable.
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Title: Visual intelligence
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- Author: Donald David Hoffman
- Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
- Year: 1998
- ISBN: 0-393-04669-9
- Description: "How we create what we see". It's sortof in-between
Oliver Sacks and R.L. Gregory. Forms and shapes and Gestalt - some neat visual illusion
tricks, well written, intended for a general audience.
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Title: Eye and brain - the psychology of seeing
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- Author: R.L. Gregory
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Year: 1990
- ISBN: 0-19-852340-8
- Description: About perception, visual illusions etc. A very good
introductory book.
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Title: Vision and Action
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- Editors: Laurence R. Harris and Michael Jenkin
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Year: 1998
- ISBN: 0-521-63162-9
- Description: A collection of articles; to name a few: "Frames of
reference, with examples from driving and auditory localization", "Effects of
orbital pulleys on the control of eye rotations", "Listings Law: what's all the
hubbub?", and one that could qualify for the Annals of Improbable Research: "An
analysis of heading towards a wall". This is rather in-depth material, and tough to
comprehend at times.
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Title: Attention, space and action
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- Author: G.W. Humphreys, J. Duncan, and A. Treisman (editors)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Year: 1999
- ISBN: 0-19-852468-4
- Description: A collection of articles about attention, action, (visual) vision and how
these work together. And much more. Not really texts for the absolute beginner.
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Title: Visual attention and cortical circuits
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- Editors: Jochen Braun, Christof Koch, Joel L. Davis
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Year: 2001
- ISBN: 0-262-02493-4
- Description: An article collection centered around visual attention. Some articles
are very technical and difficult with lots of mathematics, most others are accessible.
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Title: Perception and Cognition - Advances in Eye
Movement Research
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- Editors: G. d'Ydewalle and J. van Rensbergen
- Publisher: North-Holland (Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.)
- Year: 1993
- ISBN: 0-444-89938-3
- Description: Volume 4 in "Studies in visual information
processing". It's an article collection - and not for the faint of heart. It's full
of difficult to grasp theoretical stuff.
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Title: Visual Motion and Its Role in the Stabilization
of Gaze (Volume 5 in "Reviews of oculomotor research")
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- Edititors: F.A. Miles and J. Wallman
- Publisher: Elsevier
- Year: 1993
- ISBN: 0-444-81195-8
- Description: A collection of articles. Includes great information on OKN and
the vision of flies. I bought this book second-hand - the other books in the series are
probably highly interesting as well, but a bit too expensive.
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