Vision and Action - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521631629 ISBN 13: 9780521631624

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

The visual processes involved in moving, reaching, grasping, and playing sports are complex interactions. For example, the action of moving the head provides useful cues to help interpret the visual information. Simultaneously, vision can provide important information about the actions and their control. This becomes a reiterative process. This process, and the interactions between vision and action, are the foci of this volume. This book contains contributions from scientists who are leaders in each of the several facets of the subject. The editors consider simple types of action, such as moving the eyes and head and body, as one would do while looking around or walking, as well as complex actions such as driving a car, catching a ball, or playing ping-pong.

About this title

Book Description:

This book is about the two-way interplay between vision and action. Vision acts to guide and control actions. But vision also obtains a lot of information about the world by virtue of these actions --for example by moving round an object to obtain successive views. This becomes a reiterative process and it is this that is the focus of this volume. This book contains contributions from scientists who are leaders in each of the several facets of the subject. Examples of the types of action considered vary from moving the eyes and head and body, as in looking around or walking, to complex actions such as driving a car, or playing table tennis.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0521631629
• ISBN 13: 9780521631624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 382
• Editor: Harris Laurence R., Jenkin Michael