Chapter 3 Outline

  • Introduction
  • Visual Stimuli
  • Introductory Box: Prosopagnosia
  • The Initiation of Vision
  • Subcortical Visual Processing
  • Cortical Visual Processing
  • Other Key Characteristics of the Visual Cortex
    • Topography
    • Cortical magnification
    • Cortical modularity
    • Visual receptive fields
  • Box 3A Synesthesia
  • Visual Perception
    • Lightness and brightness
    • Color
    • Form
    • Distance and depth
    • Motion
    • Object recognition
    • Perceiving remembered images
  • Box 3B Measuring Perception
  • Box 3C The Inverse Problem
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