How animals see the world : comparative behavior, biology, and evolution of vision /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lazareva, Olga F., Shimizu, Toru, Wasserman, Edward A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
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Table of Contents:
  • What birds see and what they don't : luminance, contrast, and spatial and temporal resolution
  • Color vision in goldfish and other vertebrates
  • Grouping and early visual processing in avian vision
  • Figure-ground segregation and object-based attention in pigeons
  • Neurobiological foundations of figure-ground segregation in primates
  • Illusory perception in animals : observations and interpretations
  • Amodal completion and illusory perception in birds and primates
  • Neurobiology of perception of illusory contours in animals
  • How jumping spiders see the world
  • Visual discrimination by the honeybee (Apis mellifera)
  • Recognition-by-components : a bird's eye view
  • Birds' perception of depth and objects in pictures
  • The recognition of rotated objects in animals
  • Neural mechanisms of object recognition in nonhuman primates
  • Avian visual processing of motion and objects
  • Neural mechanisms underlying visual motion detection in birds
  • Primate motion perception
  • Primate visual attention : how studies of monkeys have shaped theories of selective visual processiong
  • Selective and divided attention in birds
  • Visual cognition in baboons : attention to global and local stimulus properties
  • Circadian visual system of mammals
  • Evolution of the brain in vertebrates : overview
  • Evolution of the vertebrate eye
  • The avian visual system : overview
  • Development of the visual system in birds and mammals
  • Brain asymmetry in vertebrates
  • Why comparative studies of vision matter