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

Action and the Perception of Events

Chapter Outline

  1. STRUCTURE FROM MOTION
  2. BIOLOGICAL MOTION
    1. Recognizing Biological Motion
  3. VISUAL GUIDANCE OF LOCOMOTION
    1. Finding the Right Direction
    2. Judging Your Tine of Arrival
    3. Locomotion and Movement Without Vision
  4. EYE MOVEMENTS: THEIR AIMS AND EFFECTS
    1. Acquiring the Target
      1. Saccadic suppression
      2. Perceptual stability
    2. Staying on Target: Keeping Your Eye on the Ball
  5. BUILDING DIRECTIONAL SELECTIVITY: SPACE-TIME RECEPTIVE FIELDS
  6. APPARENT MOTION
    1. The Correspondence Problem in Motion Perception
    2. The Aperture Problem
    3. Area MT's Special Role in Motion Processing
    4. Motion Adaptation
  7. HIGHER-ORDER EFFECTS IN MOTION PERCEPTION
    1. Attending to Objects That Are Not Really There