Visual Perception: Essential Readings
Edited by Steven Yantis
Psychology Press, 2000
"This is an outstanding collection of classic readings in visual perception, spanning the full range of psychophysics, neurobiology, theory, and historical origins of the modern discipline. In addition, Yantis provides a brief, readable introduction to each selection that highlights the key issues being addressed and creates cross-links to other selections. The book presents background material that will prove useful for every investigator entering the field of modern vision science."
--William Newsome, Stanford University
1. Theoretical Perspectives
1. Helmholtz, H. von (1925). Physiological Optics. (Vol III, §26. Concerning the perceptions in general. pp. 1-36). Translated from the Third German Edition and Edited by J. P. C. Southall. New York: Optical Society of America. (Original work published 1896)
2. Barlow, H. B. (1972). Single units and sensation: A neuron doctrine for perceptual psychology? Perception, 1, 371-394.
3. Tanner, W. P., & Swets, J. A. (1954). A decision-making theory of visual detection. Psychological Review, 61, 401-409.
4. Gibson, J. J. (1979). The ecological approach to visual perception. Chapter 14: The theory of information pickup and its consequences (pp. 238-263). Boston: Houghton Miflin Co.
5. Marr, D. (1982). Vision. Chapter 1. The philosophy and the approach (pp. 8-38). San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co.
2. Early Vision
6. Hurvich, L., & Jameson, D. (1957). An opponent-process theory of color vision. Psychological Review, 64, 384-404.
7. Hubel, D. H., & Weisel, T. N. (1968). Receptive fields and functional architecture of monkey striate cortex. Journal of Physiology, 195, 215-243.
8. Blakemore, C. & Campbell, F. W. (1969). On the existence of neurons in the human visual system selectively responsive to the orientation and size of retinal images. Journal of Physiology, 203, 237-260.
9. Zeki, S., Watson, J. D., G., Lueck, C. J., Friston, K. J., Kennard, C., & Frackowiak, R. S. J. (1991). A direct demonstration of functional specialization in human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 11, 641-649.
10. Newsome, W.T., Britten, K.H., & Movshon, J.A. (1989). Neuronal correlates of a perceptual decision. Nature, 341, 52-54.
3. Perceptual Organization and Constancy
11. Wertheimer, M. (1923). Untersuchungen zur Lehre von der Gestalt, II [Laws of organization in perceptual forms]. Psycholoche Forschung, 4, 301-350. Exerpts translated and reprinted in W. D. Ellis (Ed.), A source book of Gestalt psychology (pp. 71-88). New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1939.
12. Rubin, E. (1921). Visuaell wahrgenommene Figuren. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske. [exerpts translated and reprinted in D. C. Beardslee & M. Wertheimer (Eds.), Readings in perception (pp. 194-203). Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc.]
13. Wallach, H. (1948). Brightness constancy and the nature of achromatic colors. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 38, 310-324.
14. Kaufman, L., & Rock, I. (1962). The moon illusion. Scientific American, 207, 120-132.
15. Rock, I., Nijhawan, R., Palmer, S. E., & Tudor, L. (1992). Grouping based on phenomenal similarity of achromatic color. Perception, 21, 779-789.
4. Object and Spatial Vision
16. Lissauer, H. (1890). Ein Fall von Seelenblindheit nebst einem Beitrag zur Theorie derselben. Archiv für Psychiatrie, 21, 222-270. [translated and reprinted in 1988 as "A case of visual agnosia with a contribution to theory." Cognitive Neuropsychology, 5, 157-192; commentary by Shallice, T., & Jackson, M. (1988). Lissauer on agnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 5, 153-156.]
17. Mishkin, M., Ungerleider, L. G., & Macko, K. A. (1982). Object vision and spatial vision: Two cortical pathways. Trends in Neurosciences, 6, 414-417.
18. Adelson, E. H., & Movshon, J. A. (1982). Phenomenal coherence of moving visual patterns. Nature, 300, 523-525.
19. Shepard, R. N., & Metzler, J. (1971). Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects. Science,171, 701-703.
20. Biederman, I. (1987). Recognition-by-components: A theory of human image understanding. Psychological Review, 94, 115-147.
5. Visual Attention and Awareness
21. Treisman, A. M., & Gelade, G. (1980). A feature integration theory of attention. Cognitive Psychology, 12, 97-136.
22. Moran, J., & Desimone, R. (1985). Selective attention gates visual processing in the extrastriate cortex. Science, 229, 782-784.
23. O'Craven, K. M., Rosen, B. R., Kwong, K. K., Treisman, A., & Savoy, R. L. (1997). Voluntary attention modulates fMRI activity in human MT-MST. Neuron, 18, 591-598.
24. Weiskrantz, L., Warrington, E. K., Sanders, M.D., & Marshall, J. (1974). Visual capacity in the hemianopic field following a restricted occipital ablation. Brain, 97, 709-728.
25. Sheinberg, D.L. & Logothetis, N.K. (1997). The role of temporal cortical areas in perceptual organization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 94, 3408-3413.