The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision

Author:   Martha J. Farah (University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9780631214038


Pages:   416
Publication Date:   07 April 2000
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Martha J. Farah (University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.572kg
ISBN:  

9780631214038


ISBN 10:   0631214038
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   07 April 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

Table of Contents

1. Early Vision. 2. From Local To Global Image Representation. 3. The Problem Of Visual Recognition. 4. Object Recognition. 5. Face Recognition. 6. Word Recognition. 7. Visual Attention. 8. Hemispatial Neglect. 9. Mental Imagery. 10. Visual Awareness.

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This is an outstanding overview of an exciting frontier of research on the mind. Farah has a gift for ingenious and original syntheses of complicated research topics, which makes this book an invaluable resource for anyone interested in how the brain lets us see, Steven Pinker, Professor, MIT, and author of How the Mind Works and Words and Rules Farah's book gives a comprehensive account of the cognitive neuroscience of vision, filtered through the judgment and enlivened by the comments of one of its best-known contributors. An excellent and lively survey to interest and inform both students and researchers. Anne Treisman, Princeton University


"""This is an outstanding overview of an exciting frontier of research on the mind. Farah has a gift for ingenious and original syntheses of complicated research topics, which makes this book an invaluable resource for anyone interested in how the brain lets us see,"" Steven Pinker, Professor, MIT, and author of How the Mind Works and Words and Rules ""Farah’s book gives a comprehensive account of the cognitive neuroscience of vision, filtered through the judgment and enlivened by the comments of one of its best-known contributors. An excellent and lively survey to interest and inform both students and researchers."" Anne Treisman, Princeton University"


"This is an outstanding overview of an exciting frontier of research on the mind. Farah has a gift for ingenious and original syntheses of complicated research topics, which makes this book an invaluable resource for anyone interested in how the brain lets us see," Steven Pinker, Professor, MIT, and author of How the Mind Works and Words and Rules "Farah's book gives a comprehensive account of the cognitive neuroscience of vision, filtered through the judgment and enlivened by the comments of one of its best-known contributors. An excellent and lively survey to interest and inform both students and researchers." Anne Treisman, Princeton University


Author Information

Martha J. Farah is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a former Guggenheim Fellow and carries out research on higher cortical functions.

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