Overview

"Given its biological importance, object recognition is a topic central to the field of comparative psychology and neuroscience. Picture Perception in Animals aims to contribute to this important domain in a unique way, by questioning the realistic nature of pictures to animals and the validity of pictorial representations for inferring the processing of objects or scenes that exist in the real world. Asking questions such as : ""Is there an equivalence, from the animal's perspective, between the pictures and the objects they represent?"", ""What do birds see in moving video images?"", ""Can monkeys extract gaze information from pictures?"", ""How do monkeys and apes perceive their pictorial reflection?"", the contributors underline the risks, limits and advantages of presenting pictures to animals. This book will be of primary interest to comparative psychologists and developmental psychologists but will also be of value to psychologists, neuroscientists and anthropologists, who study the processing of real objects through the convenient use of pictures."

Full Product Details

Author:   Joel Fagot
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Psychology Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.885kg
ISBN:  

9781841691565

ISBN 10:   1841691569
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   30 November 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

J.D. Delius, J. Emmerton, J. Ostheim, W. Horster, R. Jäger, J. Ostheim, Picture-object Recognition in Pigeons. J.J. Peissig, M.E. Young, E.A. Wasserman, I. Biederman, The Pigeon's Perception of Depth-rotated shapes. S. Watanbabe, How Do Pigeons See Pictures? Recognition of the Real World from its 2- representation. D.M. Wilkie, Use of Pictures to Investigate Aspects of Pigeons' Spatial Cognition. M.L. Spetch, D.M. Kelly, S. Reid, Recognition of Objects and Spatial Relations in Pictures accross Changes in Viewpoint. S.E.G. Lea, W.H. Dittrich, What Do Birds See in Moving Video Images? R.G. Cook, J.S. Katz, D.M. Kelly, Pictorial Same-different Categorical Learning and Discrimination in Pigeons. L. Huber, Generic Perception: Open-ended Categorization of Natural Classes. O. Pascalis, O. Petit, J.H. Kim, R. Campbell, Picture Perception in Primates: The Case of Face Perception. J. Fagot, J. Martin-Malivel, D. Dépy, What is the Evidence for an Equivalence Between Objects and Pictures in Birds and Nonhuman Primates? S. Treue, J.C. Martinez Trujillo, Reshaping Neuronal Representations of Visual Scence Through Attention. E.N. Lorincz, C.I. Baker, D.I. Perrett, Visual Cues for Attention Following in Rhesus Monkeys. J.R. Anderson, Primates and Representations of Self. J.B. Deregowski, Pictorial Perception: Individual and Group Differences within the Human Species.

Reviews

'This book will undoubtedly be an important reference for students and researchers in the area of comparative cognition. I would also recommend the book to those interested in human cognition, cognitive development, and the neural basis of vision. I hope that it will stimulate a new generation of research on the mechanisms of visual processing in animals.' - Kimberly Kirkpatrick, University of York, in 'Perception'

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