Vision and Mind : Modeling Mental Functions

ISBN-13: 9780805816686 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 296 str.

V. D. Glezer; Vadim D. Glezer

Opis

This work analyzes the functional organization of the neural structures that gradually form universal categories from raw sensory material. It examines the whole process of the transformation and description during the coding of visual information.

Recenzje

"...this book would be excellent reading for anyone interested in understanding of the mental functioning in terms of brain structure and the mechanisms that perform certain operations."
—Roeper Review

"During the 1970s, great strides were made in our understanding of the brain functions necessary for visual form perception. Much of this work was done in English-speaking countries and was, therefore, readily accessible to the Western scientific community. One exception was the research undertaken by Vadim Glezer and his colleagues in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Most of those studies were reported in Russian, but gradually some of us began to be acquainted with them. At first, it seemed that the Russian work simply paralleled that performed elsewhere; that, in itself, would have been sufficient reason for translating this work, because it would show that experimenters from different backgrounds were obtaining the same results. However, it turned out that this work represented a much richer vein of data and interpretation that had become available for mining.
 
Glezer's laboratory contributions are fresh and his interpretations of the brain's harmonic analysis of form vision add considerably to our understanding. The English-speaking community should, therefore, welcome this solid contribution to our understanding of the visual process as it relates to the brain, on the one hand, and to cognition, on the other."

—Karl H. Pribram
Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, James P. and Anna King University Profe

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction. Processing of Visual Signals in the Retina and the LGN. The Receptive Fields of the Striate Cortex. The Modules of the Visual Cortex: Neurophysiological Investigations. Piecewise Fourier Analysis: Psychophysical and Behavioral Evidence. The Primary Segmentation of Visual Space. The Prestriate and Peristriate Cortices and Their Functions. The Two Basic Visual Mechanisms. Pattern Recognition and the Functions of the ITC. The Description of Spatial Relations and the Functions of the PPC. Hemispheric Assymetry and Visual Recognition. A Hypothesis and Model of the Higher Divisions of the Visual Brain: The Double Dichotomy of the Visual Brain. A Perceptual Model of the World.

O autorze

Vadim D. Glezer