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Title Fitting the mind to the world : adaptation and after-effects in high-level vision / edited by Colin W.G. Clifford and Gillian Rhodes
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 366 pages) : illustrations
Series Advances in visual cognition
Advances in visual cognition.
Contents Fitting the mind to the world: introduction / Collin W.G. Clifford and Gillian Rhodes -- 1. Physiological mechanisms of adaptation in the visual system / Michael R. Ibbotson -- 2. Functional ideas about adaptation applied to spatial and motion vision / Collin W.G. Clifford -- 3. Accommodating the past: a selective history of adaptation / Nicholas J. Wade and Frans A.J. Verstraten -- 4. The role of adaptation in colour constancy / Qasim Zaidi -- 5. High-level pattern coding revealed by brief shape aftereffects / Satoru Suzuki -- 6. fMRI adaptation: a tool for studying visual representations in the primate brain / Zoe Kourtzi and Kalanit Grill-Spector -- 7. Adaptation to complex visual patterns in humans and monkeys / David A. Leopold and Igor Bondar -- 8. Adaptation and face perception: how aftereffects implicate norm-based coding of faces / Gillian Rhodes et al -- 9. Adaptation and the phenomenology of perception / Michael A. Webster, John S. Werner, and David J. Field -- 10. Adaptation as a tool for probing the neural correlates of visual awareness: progress and precautions / Randolph Blake and Sheng He -- 11. Attentional modulation of motion adaptation / David Alais -- 12. Adaptation and perceptual binding in sight and sound / Derek H. Arnold and David Whitney
Summary This text explores the brain's remarkable capacity to adapt to its current visual environment. It demonstrates how plasticity affects every aspect of visual experience, from the perception of movement and colour, to the perception of subtle, social and emotional information in human faces
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Visual pathways.
Visual cortex.
Visual perception.
Neuroplasticity.
Eye -- Adaptation.
Adaptation, Ocular
Neuronal Plasticity
Visual Cortex
Visual Pathways
Visual Perception
Dark Adaptation
visual perception.
Eye -- Adaptation
Neuroplasticity
Visual cortex
Visual pathways
Visual perception
Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Neuroscience.
Form Electronic book
Author Clifford, Colin W. G
Rhodes, Gillian
ISBN 9780191689697
0191689696
0198529694
9780198529699