Optic Flow and Beyond

1. Front Matter

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2. Optic Flow — Neurophysiology & Psychophysics

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Multiple Cortical Representations of Optic Flow Processing

      • Milena Raffi, Ralph M. Siegel

      Pages 3-22

   3. Optic Flow and Vestibular Self-Movement Cues: Multi-Sensory Interactions in Cortical Area MST

      • Charles J. Duffy, William K. Page

      Pages 23-44

   4. A Visual Mechanism for Extraction of Heading Information in Complex Flow Fields

      • Michael W. von Grünau, Marta Iordanova

      Pages 45-59

   5. Eye Movements and an Object-Based Model of Heading Perception

      • Ranxiao Frances Wang, James E. Cutting

      Pages 61-78

   6. Short-Latency Eye Movements: Evidence for Rapid, Parallel Processing of Optic Flow

      • F. A. Miles, C. Busettini, G. S. Masson, D. S. Yang

      Pages 79-107

   7. Functional Neuroanatomy of Heading Perception in Humans

      • Lucia M. Vaina, Sergei Soloviev

      Pages 109-137

   8. The Event Structure of Motion Perception

      • Martin H. Fischer, Heiko Hecht

      Pages 139-156

3. Optic Flow Processing and Computation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Modeling Observer and Object Motion Perception

      • Constance S. Royden

      Pages 159-181

   3. Linking Perception and Neurophysiology for Motion Pattern Processing: The Computational Power of Inhibitory Connections in Cortex

      • Scott A. Beardsley, Lucia M. Vaina

      Pages 183-221

   4. Circular Receptive Field Structures for Flow Analysis and Heading Detection

      • Jaap A. Beintema, Albert V. van den Berg, Markus Lappe

      Pages 223-248

   5. Parametric Measurements of Optic Flow by Humans

      • José F. Barraza, Norberto M. Grzywacz

      Pages 249-271

   6. Fast Processing of Image Motion Patterns Arising from 3-D Translational Motion

      • Venkataraman Sundareswaran, Scott A. Beardsley, Lucia M. Vaina

      Pages 273-287

   7. On the Computation of Image Motion and Heading in a 3-D Cluttered Scene

      • Michael S. Langer, Richard Mann

      Pages 289-304

4. Visual Locomotion and Beyond

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-305

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   2. From Optic Flow to Laws of Control

      • William H. Warren, Brett R. Fajen

      Pages 307-337

   3. Egocentric Direction and Locomotion

      • Simon K. Rushton

      Pages 339-362

   4. The Utility of not Changing Direction and the Visual Guidance of Locomotion

      • Simon K. Rushton, Julie M. Harris

      Pages 363-381

Optic flow provides all the information necessary to guide a walking human or a mobile robot to its target. Over the past 50 years, a body of research on optic flow spanning the disciplines of neurophysiology, psychophysics, experimental psychology, brain imaging and computational modelling has accumulated. Today, when we survey the field, we find independent lines of research have now converged and many arguments have been resolved; simultaneously the underpinning assumptions of flow theory are being questioned and alternative accounts of the visual guidance of locomotion proposed. At this critical juncture, this volume offers a timely review of what has been learnt and pointers to where the field is going.

• Flow
• anatomy
• behavior
• brain imaging
• cognition
• control
• cortex
• mobile robot
• modeling
• neurophysiology
• perception
• physiology
• psychophysics
• robot

• Boston University and Harvard University, USA

  Lucia M. Vaina

• Boston University, USA

  Scott A. Beardsley

• Cardiff University, UK

  Simon K. Rushton

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