Books on Biological Vision

  • Atchison, David A. and Smith, George (2000) Optics of the Human Eye, Butterworth-Heinemann.
  • Barlow, H. B. & Mollon, J. D. (1982). The Senses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Barlow H, Blakemore C: Images and Understanding. Cambridge University Press 1990/1991.
  • Barten, P.G.J. (1999). Contrast Sensitivity of the Human Eye and Its Effects on Image Quality. SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA.
  • Blakemore, C. (1990). Vision: coding and efficiency. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Boff, K., L. Kaufman, et al., Eds. (1986). Handbook of Perception and Human Performance. New York, Wiley.
  • Boynton, R. M. (1979). Human Color Vision . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
  • Brindley, G. S. (1970). Physiology of the Retina and Visual Pathway . Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Company.
  • Bruce, V., Green, P.R. and Georgeson, M.A. (1996) "Visual Perception: Physiology, Psychology, Ecology" 3rd Edition. , Hove, UK: Laurence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Buser, P. & Imbert, M. (1992) Vision. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
  • Caelli, T: (1981) Visual Perception Theory and Practice. Pergamon Press, New York.
  • Carpenter R: (1991) Eye Movements. Macmillan Press.
  • Cohen, B, Bodis-Wollner, I: (1990) Vision and the Brain. Raven Press, New York.
  • Cool S, Smith E: (1978) Frontiers in Visual Science. Springer Verlag, New York.
  • Coren, S. & Girgus J. (9178) Seeing is Deceiving. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1978.
  • Cornsweet, T. N. (1970). Visual Perception . New York: Academic Press.
  • Cutsuridis, V., Hussain, A., Taylor, J. G. (2011) Perception-Action Cycle: Models, Algorithms and Hardware. Springer,
  • De Valois, R. L. & De Valois, K. K. (1988). Spatial Vision . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Dowling, J. E. (1987). The retina: An approachable part of the brain . Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Fairchild, Mark D. , (1998). Color Appearance Models. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass. ISBN 0-201-63464-3.
  • Frisby J. (1979) Seeing. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Gibson, J. J. (1979). The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception . Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  • Gibson, J. J. (1979). The Senses considered as Perceptual Systems . Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  • Goldstein, E. B. (1996) Sensation and Perception: Brooks/Cole.
  • Goodale, MA and Milner, AD (2004) Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision. Oxford University Press.
  • Gordon, I. (1997) Theories of Visual Perception, John Wiley & Sons.
  • Gorea, A. (1991). Representations of Vision. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press,
  • Graham, N. V. S. (1989). Visual pattern analyzers . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Gregory, R. & Gombrich, E. (1973) Illusion in Nature and Art. Duckworth, London 1973.
  • Harris, C. (1980) Visual Coding and Adaptability. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, .
  • Harris LR and Jenkin M (1993) Spatial Vision in Humans and Robots. Cambridge University Press.
  • Hershenson, M. (1989). The moon illusion. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Howard, I. P. (1982). Human visual orientation. Chichester: Wiley. Available from ihoward@hpl.ists.ca.
  • Howard, I P. and Rogers, B. J. (1995). Binocular vision and stereopsis. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Hubel, D. H. (1988). Eye, Brain, and Vision . New York: W. H. Freeman.
  • Hurvich L. (1981) Color Vision. Sinauer Assoc., Sunderland.
  • Ingle D, Schneider G: (1970) Subcortical Visual Systems. New York: S. Karger.
  • Jenkin, M and Harris, LR. , ed. (1997) Computational and psychophysical mechanisms of visual coding, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
  • Julesz B: (1971) Foundations of Cyclopean Perception. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
  • Kaufman, L. (1974). Sight and Mind. New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Kaiser, Peter K. and Boynton, Robert M. (1996) Human Color Vision, Second Edition, Washington, DC, Optical Society of America.
  • Kanizsa, G. (1979) Organization in Vision. New York: Praeger.
  • Kelly, D.H.(1994). Visual science and engineering: models and applications. Marcel Dekker, Inc.
  • Kellman, P.J. & Arterberry, M. (1998). The Cradle of Knowledge: Perceptual Development in Infancy.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-11232-9.
  • Kimchi, R., Behrmann, M., & Olson, C. R. (2003). Perceptual organization in vision : behavioral and neural perspectives. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum. [LoC]
  • Knill, D. C. and Richards, W. (1996) Perception as Bayesian Inference, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, England.
  • Knoblauch, K. & Maloney, L. T. (2012) Modeling Psychophysical Data in R , Springer, ISBN: 978-1-4614-4474-9.
  • Landy, M. S. & Movshon, J. A. (1991). Computational models of visual processing. Cambridge MA: MIT Press,
  • LeGrand, Y. (1970). Light, Colour, and Vision . New York: John Wiley and Sons.
  • Levine, M. D. (1985)Vision in Man in Machine, McGraw Hill.
  • Lund, J. (1989) Sensory Processing in the Mammalian Brain. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Marr, D. (2010). Vision, Cambridge MA: MIT Press (originally published 1982, New York, W.H. Freeman and Company).
  • Mausfeld, R. & Heyer, D. (2003) Colour Perception - Mind and the physical world. UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Mollon, J. (1983) Colour Vision. London: Academic Press.
  • Motokawa, K. (1970) Physiology of Color and Pattern Vision. New York: Springer Verlag.
  • Musio, Carlo (ed.) (2001) VISION The Approach of Biophysics and Neurosciences. World Scientific Publisher, London. ISBN 981-02-4647-1.
  • NAS-NRC Committee on Vision, Working-Group-41. (1981). Procedures for Testing Color Vision, Washington,DC: National Academy Press.
  • Ogle K. (1972) Researches in Binocular Vision. New York: Hafner Publishing Company.
  • Peli, E. (1995) Vision Models for Target Detection and Recognition.In Memory of Arthur Menendez. New Jersey, World Scientific
  • Pallikaris, I., Plainis, S., Charman, W.N. "Presbyopia: origins, effects and treatment" (2012) SLACK Incorporated ISBN: 978-1617110269
  • Parker, A. (2003). In the blink of an eye. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Pub.Parker, A. (2005).[LoC] Parker, A. (2005). Seven deadly colours : the genius of nature's palette and how it eluded Darwin. London: Free Press.
  • Petry, S. & Meyer, G. E. (1987) The Perception of Illusory Contours. Heidelberg: Springer.
  • Pettigrew,J.D., K.J. Sanderson & W.R. Levick, Eds. (1986) Visual Neuroscience. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Pokorny, J., Smith, V. C., Verriest, G., & Pinckers, A. J. L. G. (Eds.). (1979). Congenital and acquired color vision defects. New York: Grune and Stratton.
  • Regan, D. (1991). Spatial vision. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
  • Rodieck R. W. (1998) The First Steps in Seeing. Sinauer Associates,Inc., Sunderland, Mass.
  • Rose, D. & Dobson, V. G. (1985). Models of the visual cortex. New York: John Wiley & Sons,
  • Schwartz, S.H. (1994). Visual Perception: A Clinical Orientation. Appleton and Lange: East Norwalk, CT.
  • Sekuler, R., & Blake, R (1994) Perception, McGraw-Hill.
  • Shapley, R. & Lam, D. M.-K. (1993). Contrast Sensitivity. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press,
  • Sherman, S.M , and. Guillery, R.W. (2001) Exploring the Thalamus.Academic Press, San Diego.
  • Shevell, S. (Ed.) (2003) The science of color, OSA and Elsevier Science, New York.
  • Shipley, T.F. & Kellman, P. J. (Eds.). (2001).  From Fragments to Objects: Segmentation and Grouping in Vision.  Amsterdam:  Elsevier Science Press. ISBN 0-444-50506-7.
  • Smith, A.T. and Snowden, R.J. (eds.) (1994) Visual Detection of Motion. Academic Press.
  • Spillman, L. & Werner, J. (1990). Visual Perception: The neurophysiological foundations. Academic Press,
  • Stiles, W. (1978) Mechanisms of Colour Vision. New York: Academic Press.
  • Stone, J. V., (2012) Vision and Brain: How We Perceive The World. MIT Press .
  • Toyoda, J.-I. , Murakami, M. , Kaneko, A. , & Saito, T. , eds., (1999) The Retinal Basis of Vision. Elsevier.
  • Tyler, C.W. (Ed.),Human Symmetry Perception and its Computational Analysis, The Netherlands: VSP Press.
  • Turner, R. (1994) In the Eye´s Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Uttal (1973) The Psychobiology of Sensory Coding. Harper and Row
  • Uttal (1981) A Taxonomy of Visual Processes. Erlbaum
  • Uttal (1988) On Seeing Forms. Erlbaum
  • Uttal (1975) An Autocorrelation Theory of Form Detection. Erlbaum
  • Uttal (1983) Visual Form Detection in 3-Dimensional Space. Erlbaum
  • Uttal (1985) The Detection of Non-Planar Surfaces in Visual Space. Erlbaum
  • Uttal (1987) The Perception of Dotted Forms. Erlbaum
  • Uttal, W. R. (1998) Toward a New Behaviorism: The Case Against Perceptual Reductionism. Erlbaum
  • Uttal, W.R. et al. (1999) Computational modeling of vision, Marcel Dekker, New York.
  • Vaina, L. M., Beardsley, S. A., & Rushton, S. K. (2004) Optic Flow and Beyond. Kluwer, Dordrecht.
  • Valberg, A. & Lee, B.B. Eds. (1991). From Pigments to Perception. London: Plenum Press.
  • Wallach, H. (1976). On Perception. . New York: NY Times Book Co.
  • Wandell, B. A. (1995). Foundations of Vision . Sunderland Mass: Sinauer Press.
  • Watson, A. B. (1993). Digital images and human vision. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.[Find]
  • Watt, R. (1991) Understanding Vision, Academic Press.
  • Weale R. (1982) Focus on vision. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Wechsler, H., Phillips, J.P., Bruce, V. ,Fogelman Soulie F. , & Huang, T. (Ed.s) Face recognition: From theory to applications. Springer.
  • Westland, S. , Ripamonti, C.and Cheung, V., Computational Colour Science Using MATLAB (2012) WILEY ISBN: 978-0-470-66569-5 .
  • Wilson, Hugh R. (1999) Spikes, Decisions & Actions: Dynamical Foundations of Neuroscience, Oxford University Press.
  • Wyszecki, G. & Stiles, W. S. (1982). Color Science (2 ed.). New York: John Wiley and Sons.
  • W.H. Zangemeister, H.S. Stiehl, and C. Freksa (Eds.) (1996) Visual attention and cognition. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science.
  • Zanker, J.M., Zeil, J. (Eds.), (2001) Motion Vision - Computational, Neural, and Ecological Constraints. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York 3-540-65166-7 [Buy]
  • Zeki, S. (1993). A vision of the brain . London: Blackwell.
  • Zusne, L. (1970) Visual Perception of Form. New York: Academic Press.
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