Vision and Attention

It has become apparent that vision is not a passive process working on the retinal image like a film to record a perfect copy as the percept ion. Instead, higher-level cognitive processes such as expectancies, m emories and experience play a critical, almost overriding role. This b ook is a review and summary of the tremendous advances that have been made in recent years on the effect of attention on visual perception. A CD-ROM is included that contains color images and movies that add to the various chapter contributions. The book will appeal to vision sc ientists as well as to people involved in using visual processes in co mputer animations, display design or the sensory systems of machines. Physiologists and neuroscientists interested in sensory or motor proce sses will also find this a very useful volume.