Brain Mechanisms and Spatial Vision

Abstract

Visual Timing of Interceptive Action -- Space, Form and Optical Deformations -- Extraction of Higher Order Derivatives of the Optical Velocity Vector Field: Limitations Imposed by Biological Hardware -- The Analysis of Three-Dimensional Structure from Moving Images -- Motion Parallax and the Perception of Three-Dimensional Surfaces -- The Development of Sensitivity to Kinetic, Binocular and Pictoral Depth Information in Human Infants -- Visual Experience and the Development of Depth Perception -- Human Sensory-Motor Adaption to the Terrestrial Force Environment -- Visual Stabilization During Head Movement -- Action-Oriented Approaches to Visuo-Spatial Brain Functions -- Disturbances of Stereopsis by Brain Damage -- The Posterior Parietal Area as a Spatial Generator -- Static Versus Kinetic Visual Cues for the Processing of Spatial Relationships -- Behavioural and Neurophysiological Correlates of Visual Movement Deprivation in the Cat -- Velocity Tuned Cortical Cells and Human Velocity Discrimination -- Visual Cortical Processing: Texture Sensitivity and Relative Motion -- Neural Mechanisms for Detecting Object Motion and Figure-Ground Boundaries, Contrasted with Self-Motion Detecting Systems -- Perceptual Theory and Sensory Substitution.