"Based on the symposia presented during the 28th Annual Meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), the premier transnational conference on visual perception. The conference took place in A Coruña, Spain, in August 2005"--General introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Fundamentals of vision : low and mid-level processes in perception -- pt. 2. Fundamentals of awareness : multi-sensory integration and high-order perception.

Section I: The Role of Context in Recognition -- Top-down facilitation of visual object recognition: object-based and context-based contributions -- Building the gist of a scene: the role of global image features in recognition --Beyond the face: exploring rapid influences of context on face processing -- The effectiveness of disruptive coloration as a concealment strategy -- Section II: From Perceptive Fields to Gestalt: A Tribute to Lothar Spillmann -- From perceptive fields to Gestalt -- In honour of Lothar Spillmann -- Lightness, filling-in, and the fundamental role of context in visual perception -- Beyond a relay nucleus: neuroimaging views on the human LGN -- Section III: The Neural Bases for Visual Awareness and Attention -- Finding a face in the crowd: parallel and serial neural mechanisms of visual selection -- Saccades, salience and attention: the role of the lateral intraparietal area in visual behavior -- Visual masking approaches to visual awareness -- Blindsight, conscious vision, and the role of primary visual cortex -- Bilateral frontal leucotomy does not alter perceptual alternation during binocular rivalry -- Section IV: Crossmodal Interactions in Visual Perception -- Combining visual and auditory information -- Crossmodal interactions: lessons from synesthesia -- Integrating motion information across sensory modalities: the role of top-down factors -- Crossmodal audio- isual interactions in the primary visual cortex of the visually deprived cat: a physiological and anatomical study -- The "other" transformation required for visual- uditory integration: representational format.

This book presents a collection of articles reflecting state-of-the-art research in visual perception, specifically concentrating on neural correlates of perception. Each section addresses one of the main topics in vision research today. Part 2: Fundamentals of Awareness, Multi-Sensory Integration and High-Order Perception covers topics from filling-in to visual awareness to crossmodal interactions. A variety of methodological approaches are represented, including single-neuron recordings, fMRI and optical imaging, psychophysics, eye movement characterization and computational modelling. The contributions will provide the reader with a valuable perspective on the current status of vision research, and more importantly, with critical insight into future research directions and the discoveries yet to come. Provides a detailed breakdown of the neural and psychophysical bases of Perception Presents never-before-published original discoveries Includes multiple full-color illustrations.

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