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Perception 4/e Cover Image
Perception, 4/e
Robert Sekuler, Brandeis University
Randolph Blake, Vanderbilt University

Object Perception: Recognizing the Things We See

Chapter Outline

  1. A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE: RECOGNIZING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS
    1. Recognition by components
    2. View-based recognition
  2. LEARNING TO SEE
  3. THE TEMPORAL PATHWAY AND OBJECT RECOGNITION
    1. Teaching old IT neurons new tricks
  4. FACES
    1. Perceiving faces/perceiving minds
    2. Prosopagnosia: a failure of face recognition
  5. GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH GREEBLES
  6. ATTENTION AND OBJECT RECOGNITION
    1. Attention can induce blindness
  7. IMAGERY: VISION'S HELPER
    1. Where does visual imagery come from?
    2. What does visual imagery look like?
  8. PERCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF READING
  9. TEMPORARY FAILURES OF RECOGNITION