How animals see the world : comparative behavior, biology, and evolution of vision / edited by Olga F. Lazareva, Toru Shimizu, Edward A. Wasserman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lazareva, Olga F.

Shimizu, Toru.

Wasserman, Edward A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vision.

Animal behavior.

Evolution (Biology).

Eye--Evolution.

Eye.

Physiology, Comparative.

Physical Description:

ix, 548 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Contents:

What birds see and what they don't : luminance, contrast, and spatial and temporal resolution / William Hodos

Color vision in goldfish and other vertebrates / Christa Neumeyer

Grouping and early visual processing in avian vision / Robert G. Cook and Carl Erick Hagmann

Figure-ground segregation and object-based attention in pigeons / Olga F. Lazareva and Edward A. Wasserman

Neurobiological foundations of figure-ground segregation in primates / Hans Supè̀r

Illusory perception in animals : observations and interpretations / Edward A. Wasserman

Amodal completion and illusory perception in birds and primates / Kazuo Fujita, ... [et al.]

Neurobiology of perception of illusory contours in animals / Andreas Nieder

How jumping spiders see the world / Duane P. Harland, Daiqin Li, and Robert R. Jackson

Visual discrimination by the honeybee (Apis mellifera) / Adrian Horridge

Recognition-by-components : a bird's eye view / Edward A. Wasserman and Irving Biederman

Birds' perception of depth and objects in pictures / Marcia L. Spetch and Ronald G. Weisman

The recognition of rotated objects in animals / Jessie J. Peissig and Tamara Goode

Neural mechanisms of object recognition in nonhuman primates / Rufin Vogels

Avian visual processing of motion and objects / Robert G. Cook and Matthew S. Murphy

Neural mechanisms underlying visual motion detection in birds / Douglas R. Wylie and Andrew N. Iwaniuk

Primate motion perception / Bart Krekelberg

Primate visual attention : how studies of monkeys have shaped theories of selective visual processiong / Pierre Pouget, Jason Arita, and Geoffrey F. Woodman

Selective and divided attention in birds / Thomas R. Zentall

Visual cognition in baboons : attention to global and local stimulus properties / Joël Fagot and Carole Parron

Circadian visual system of mammals / Lawrence P. Morin

Evolution of the brain in vertebrates : overview / Ann B. Butler

Evolution of the vertebrate eye / James K. Bowmaker

The avian visual system : overview / Toru Shimizu and Shigeru Watanabe

Development of the visual system in birds and mammals / Hans-Joachim Bischof

Brain asymmetry in vertebrates / Onur Güntürkün

Why comparative studies of vision matter / Shaun P. Vecera

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195334654

0195334655

OCLC:

700466132