How Animals See the World

Comparative Behavior, Biology, and Evolution of Vision
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-533465-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1235 g

A multidisciplinary text written by an international group of researchers/contributors
Builds bridges across the disciplines of neuroscience, cognitive science, and behavioral science
Discusses the perception of a wide variety of species including insects, spiders, fish, birds, and primates

The visual world of animals is highly diverse and often very different from the world that we humans take for granted. This book provides an extensive review of the latest behavioral and neurobiological research on animal vision, highlighting fascinating species similarities and differences in visual processing. It contains 26 chapters written by world-leading experts about a variety of species including: honeybees, spiders, fish, birds, and primates. The chapters are divided into six sections: Perceptual grouping and segmentation, Object perception and object recognition, Motion perception, Visual attention, Different dimensions of visual perception, and Evolution of the visual system. An exhaustive work in range and depth, How Animals See the World will be a valuable resource for advanced students and researchers in areas of cognitive psychology, perception and cognitive neuroscience, as well as researchers in the visual sciences.

Zielgruppe

Vision scientists, neuroscientists, and comparative psychologists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lazareva, Olga F.

Shimizu, Toru

Wasserman, Edward A.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierethologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I. Perceptual grouping and segmentation
Chapter1: What birds see and what they don't
William Hodos

Part II. Luminance, contrast, and spatial and temporal resolution
Chapter 2: Color vision in fish and other vertebrates
Christa Neumeyer

Chapter 3: Grouping and early visual processing in avian vision
Robert Cook and Carl Erick Hagmann

Chapter 4: Figure-ground segregation and object-based attention in birds
Olga Lazareva and Edward Wasserman

Chapter 5: Neurobiological foundations of figure-ground segregation in primates
Hans Supér

Chapter 6: Illusory perception in animals: Observations and interpretations
Edward Wasserman

Chapter 7: Amodal completion and illusory perception in birds and primates
Kazuo Fujita, Noriyuki Nakamura, Ayumi Sakai, Sota Watanabe, & Tomokazu Ushitani

Chapter 8: Neurobiology of perception of illusory contours in animals
Andreas Nieder

Part III. Object perception and object recognition

Chapter 9: How jumping spiders see the world
Duane P Harland, Daiqin Li and Robert R Jackson

Chapter 10: Visual discrimination by the honeybee (Apis mellifera)
Adrian Horridge

Chapter 11: Recognition by components: A birds' eye view
Edward A. Wasserman and Irving Biederman

Chapter 12: Birds' perception of depth and objects in pictures
Marcia L. Spetch and Ronald G. Weisman

Chapter 13: The recognition of rotated objects in animals
Jessie J. Peissig and Tamara Goode

Chapter 14: Neural mechanisms of object recognition in non-human primates
Rufin Vogels

Part IV. Motion perception

Chapter 15: Avian visual processing of motion and objects
Robert G. Cook and Matthew S. Murphy

Chapter 16: Neural mechanisms underlying visual motion detection in birds
Douglas R.W. Wylie and Andrew N. Iwaniuk

Chapter 17: Primate motion perception
Bart Krekelberg

Part V. Visual attention

Chapter 18: Primate visual attention: How studies of monkeys have shaped theories of selective visual processing
Pierre Pouget, Jason Arita and Geoffrey F. Woodman

Chapter 19: Selective and divided attention in pigeons
Tom Zentall

Chapter 20: Visual cognition in baboons: Attention to the global and local stimulus properties
Joel Fagot

Part VI. Different dimensions of visual perception

Chapter 21: Circadian visual system of mammals
Lawrence P. Morin

Part VII. Evolution of visual system

Chapter 22: Evolution of the brain in vertebrates: Overview
Ann B. Butler

Chapter 23: Evolution of the vertebrate eye
James K Bowmaker

Chapter 24: The avian visual system: Overview
Toru Shimizu and Shigeru Watanabe

Chapter 25: Development of the visual system in birds and mammals
Hans-Joachim Bischof

Chapter 26: Brain asymmetry in vertebrates
Onur Güntürkün

Postscript: Shaun Vecera

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wasserman, Edward A.
Edward A. Wasserman is Dewey B. and Velma P. Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Iowa and coeditor with Thomas Zentall of Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is a member of the Delta Center at the University of Iowa, dedicated to the investigation of learning, development, and change. Wasserman's research has centered on learning, memory, cognition, and perception in humans and nonhuman animals.

Shimizu, Toru
Toru Shimizu is Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida. His areas of research include the neural basis of vision and cognition in animals.

Lazareva, Olga F.
Olga F. Lazareva is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Drake University. Her research concentrates on behavioral and neurobiological aspects of visual perception and relational learning in humans and nonhuman animals.

Edited by Olga F. Lazareva, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Drake University, Edited by Toru Shimizu, Professor of Psychology, University of South Florida, and Edited by Edward A. Wasserman, Dewey B. and Velma P. Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Iowa

Olga F. Lazareva is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Drake University. Her research concentrates on behavioral and neurobiological aspects of visual perception and relational learning in humans and nonhuman animals.

Toru Shimizu is Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida. His areas of research include the neural basis of vision and cognition in animals.

Edward A. Wasserman is Dewey B. and Velma P. Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Iowa and coeditor with Thomas Zentall of Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is a member of the Delta Center at the University of Iowa, dedicated to the investigation of learning, development, and change. Wasserman's research has centered on learning, memory, cognition, and perception in humans and nonhuman animals.

Contributors:
Jason Arita; Irving Biederman; Hans-Joachim Bischof; James K. Bowmaker; Ann B. Butler; Robert Cook; Joel Fagot; Kazuo Fujita; Tamara Goode; Onur Gntrkn; Carl Erick Hagmann; Duane Harland; William Hodos; Adrian Horridge; Andrew N. Iwaniuk; Robert Jackson; Bart Krekelberg; Olga Lazareva; Daiqin Li; Lawrence P. Morin; Matthew S. Murphy; Noriyuki Nakamura; Andreas Nieder; Christa Neumeyer; Carole Parron; Jessie Peissig; Pierre Pouget; Ayumi Sakai; Toru Shimizu; Marcia L. Spetch; Hans Supr; Tomokazu Ushitani; Rufin Vogels; Edward Wasserman; Shigeru Watanabe; Sota Watanabe; Ronald Weisman; Geoffrey F. Woodman; Douglas R. W. Wylie; Thomas R. Zentall