Perception

Description

This volume was designed to focus on the problems of perception and originally was to have been solely edited by Professor Hans-Lukas Teuber who was a member of the editorial board which initiated production of the Handbook. Accordingly, he issued invitations to a number of researchers III perception asking them to contribute chapters written in a style described III his words: " . . . Ire hope that no author lI'ill feel COl/strained to undertake a major search of the literature: he could In'ite, instead. on an area in which he has been quite actire himse?t~ and II'here most of the issues are immediately obt"ious to him. In this Iray, the IITiting of the chapter should be cnjoyable rather than a chore . . it should result in a personal account of the state of a given area rather than in an encyclopedic treatise . . . the field deserves this sort of summary ret'iell", particularly (f it is pointed toward the future and speeds the convergence of det'elopments in sensory physiology and psychological studies of perception, " With the growing burden of national and international commitments includ­ ing departmental headship, Professor Teuber felt that it would be wise to share the editorial responsibilities for this volume and accordingly, asked Professors Richard Held and Herschel Leibowitz to co-edit the volume with him in the same spirit as outlined in his invitation to authors. They agreed to help in this task. Front Matter....Pages I-XVI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Channels in Vision: Basic Aspects....Pages 3-38 Spatial Frequency Channels: Neural Mechanisms....Pages 39-66 Physiological Basis of Motion Perception....Pages 67-96 Form-Color Aftereffects in Human Vision....Pages 97-142 Phonetic Perception....Pages 143-178 Primary Distance Perception....Pages 181-213 Global Stereopsis: Cooperative Phenomena in Stereoscopic Depth Perception....Pages 215-256 Mechanisms of Shape-Recognition Among Vertebrates....Pages 259-287 Ethological Aspects of Auditory Pattern Recognition....Pages 289-309 Visual Competence in Early Infancy....Pages 311-356 Developmental Aspects of Speech Perception....Pages 357-374 Maturation and Modification in the Developing Visual System....Pages 377-436 Innate and Environmental Factors in the Development of Visual Form Perception....Pages 437-488 Form Perception and Related Issues in Blind Humans....Pages 489-519 Front Matter....Pages 521-521 Human Pattern and Object Perception....Pages 523-548 Visual Illusions....Pages 549-568 Figural Aftereffects....Pages 569-592 Face Perception: A Review of Experiments with Infants, Normal Adults, and Brain-Injured Persons....Pages 593-608 Word and Sentence Perception....Pages 611-625 Visual Masking....Pages 629-653 Front Matter....Pages 521-521 Apparent Movement....Pages 655-673 Visual Event Perception....Pages 675-711 Time Perception....Pages 713-729 Perceptual Aspects of the Reading Process and Its Development....Pages 731-751 Visual-Vestibular Interaction: Effects on Self-Motion Perception and Postural Control....Pages 755-804 Some Mechanisms Underlying Sensory and Postural Stability in Man....Pages 805-845 Pain Perception in Man....Pages 849-875 The Brain and Human Behavior....Pages 879-920 Back Matter....Pages 921-994