Visual Perception

Shimon Edelman
Center for Biological Information Processing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
email: edelman@ai.mit.edu

• Questions
  • Visual Performance
  • Visual Competence
• The Study of Perception
  • Goals
  • Methods
• Building blocks
  • Lightness and Shading
  • Color
  • Texture
  • Stereopsis
  • Motion
  • Three-dimensional Space and Shape
  • Object Recognition
• Cross-modal Characteristics and Processes
  • Constancy
    • Lightness Constancy
    • Color Constancy
    • Size Constancy
    • Shape Constancy
    • Space Constancy
    • Explanations of Constancy
  • Implicit Knowledge
  • Illusions
  • Processes
    • Adaptation
    • Attention and Search
    • Perceptual Organization
    • Completion and Filling-In
    • Categorization
    • Perceptual Learning
• The neural substrate
  • Vision is Massively Parallel
  • Maps and Receptive Fields
• Conclusion
• References
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