Perception of the Visual Environment

This is a text book aimed at a student taking a course on visual perce ption. Throughout, the book considers what it means for a man, a monke y and a computer to perceive the world. After an introduction to the s ubject and a discussion of methods, the book deals with how the enviro nment produces a physical effect, how the resulting "image" is process ed by the brain and by computer algorithms in order to produce a perce ption of "something out there". The book discusses color, form, motion , distance, and also the sensing of three dimensionality. Visual perce ption and its role in awareness and consciousness is then discussed. T he book finishes up with discussions of perceptual development, blindn ess, and visual disorders.