To Instructors using the 4^th edition of Sekuler and Blake's Perception

Perception's new, fourth version includes much exciting new material, including an entirely new chapter (on object perception), and many, many new references. Given the scope of the revision, it is perhaps not surprising (but still disconcerting) that errors slipped by during the production phase. These will be corrected in the book's next printing.  In the meantime we want instructors using the current version of 4e to be aware of errors of fact or omission. Therefore we are making available below a list of errata. We apologize for the mistakes, but we take comfort in the belief that they do not seriously detract from the book's many positive new features.

Text errors
Page xv. Last line. The backslash (\) in the URL should be a forward slash (/)
p. 210 Top line, left column: into the parentheses add "Kovács and Julesz, 1993"
p. 293 left column line 13 "the M-L channel" should be "the M-(L+S) channel"
p. 476 and 477, the acronyms should be just two: IID and ITD. The acronym IIT is a typo. It is recommended to change each occurrence of IIT to ITD, the confusion should resolve itself.
p. 530, line 14, right-hand column -- "Slow" should be "Fast" (The sentence should read: "Fast fibers may be involved in hyperalgesia, the heightened discomfort produced by stimulation delivered to an already painful..."

Figure/caption modifications
1.1 "Neural activity" (label in gray box at top of figure) should be "Motor activity"
1.2  The dotted lines from the eyes in the lower righthand figure  should be identical to the dotted lines in the lower lefthand figure  (implying that the eyes have NOT moved)
2.12 the term "Collector cells" should be "amacrine, horizontal and bipolar cells"
2.21 Substituted figure on instructors website for the one now in the book
4.4 The term "visual cortex" should be "Primary visual cortex"

Items omitted from the Reference List

Albensi, B. C., Powell, J. H. (1998)  The differential optomotor response of the four-eyed fish Anableps anableps. Perception, 27, 1475-1483.

Ashmead, D. H., Davis, D.L., and Northington, A. (1995) Contribution of listeners' approaching motion to auditor distance perception. Journal of experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 21, 239-256.

Brunswik, E., and Kamiya, J. (1953) Ecological cue-validity of ‘proximity’ and other Gestalt factors.  American Journal of Psychology, 66, 20-32.

Coppola, D. M., Purves, H. R., McCoy, A. N., and Purves, D. (1998) The distribution of oriented contours in the real world. Proceedings of the National Academy of  Sciences, USA, 95, 4002-4006.

Dallos, P., A. N. Popper and R. R. Fay ( eds.)  (1996) The Cochlea, Volume 8 of Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, Series Editors: R. R. Fay and A. N. Popper.  New York: Springer-Verlag.

Dobbins, A. C., Jeo, R. M., Fiser, J, and Allman, J. M. (1998) Distance modulation of neural activity in the visual cortex. Science, 281, 552-555.

Hässler, R. (1967) Comparative anatomy of the central visual systems in day and night-active primates. In R. Hässler and S. Stephens (eds.), Evolution of the Forebrain. Stuttgart: Thieme.  Pp. 419-434.

Hirsch, H. V., and Spinelli, D. N. (1970) Visual experience modifies distribution of horizontally and vertically oriented receptive fields in cats.  Science, 168, 869-871.

Ilg,  U. J., and Thier,  P. (1996) Inability of rhesus monkey area V1 to discriminate between self-induced and externally induced retinal image slip. European Journal of Neuroscience, 8, 1156-1166.

Kamitani Y, and Shimojo, S (1999) Manifestation of scotomas created by transcranial magnetic stimulation of human visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 767-771.

Kammer, T. (1999) Phosphenes and transient scotomas induced by magnetic stimulation of the occipital lobe: their topographic relationship. Neuropsychologia, 37, 191-198.

Karni A, Sagi D. (1991) Where practice makes perfect in texture discrimination: evidence for primary visual cortex plasticity.  Proceedings of the National Academy of  Sciences,  USA, 88, 4966-4970.

Kovács I, Julesz B. (1993) A closed curve is much more than an incomplete one: effect of closure in figure-ground segmentation. Proceedings of the Nationall Academy of Sciences, USA, 90, 7495-7497.

Laurent,  G. (1999) A systems perspective on early olfactory coding. Science, 286, 723-728.

Mackworth, N. H., and Morandi, A. J. (1967)  The gaze selects informative details within pictures. Perception & Psychophysics, 2, 547-552.

Merskey, H., and Bogduk, N. (1994) Classification of Chronic Pain, Second Edition, IASP Task Force on Taxonomy, edited by H. Merskey and N. Bogduk, IASP Press, Seattle. Pp. 209-214.

Reed, C. L., and Caselli, R. J. (1994) The nature of tactile agnosia: a case study. Neuropsychologia, 32, 527-539.

Sengpiel, F., Stawinski, P., and Bonhoeffer, T. (1999) Influence of experience on orientation maps in cat visual cortex.  Nature Neuroscience, 2, 727-732.

Shiu, L. P., and Pashler, H. (1992) Improvement in line orientation discrimination is retinally local but dependent on cognitive set. Perception & Psychophysics 52, 582-588.

Sivak, J. G. (1976) Optics of the eye of the "four-eyed fish" (Anableps anableps). Vision Research, 16, 531-534.

Sowden PT, Davies IR, Roling P. (2000) Perceptual learning of the detection of features in X-ray images: a functional role for improvements in adults' visual sensitivity? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 379-390.

Tovee,  M. J., Rolls, ET, and Ramachandran, V. S. (1996) Rapid visual learning in neurones of the primate temporal visual cortex. Neuroreport,  7, 2757-2760.

Verstraten, F. A., Fredericksen, R. E., and van de Grind, W. A. (1994) Movement aftereffect of bi-vectorial transparent motion. Vision Research, 34, 349-58.

Name Index
Some of the names in this list are missing first initials, and some do not include all pages where references appear. We have not included those errors in this sheet since they are relatively minor and do not represent errors of substance; be assured they will be corrected in the next printing.