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Optic Flow and Beyond

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Editors:
  1. Lucia M. Vaina

    1. Boston University and Harvard University, USA

  2. Scott A. Beardsley

    1. Boston University, USA

  3. Simon K. Rushton

    1. Cardiff University, UK

Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 324)

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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.

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Optic Flow — Neurophysiology & Psychophysics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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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
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Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Optic Flow and Beyond

  • Editors: Lucia M. Vaina, Scott A. Beardsley, Simon K. Rushton

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2092-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2091-9Published: 30 April 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6589-6Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2092-6Published: 30 April 2004

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 512

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Artificial Intelligence, Neuroradiology

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