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Object Recognition, Attention, and Action

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Editors:
  1. Naoyuki Osaka

    1. Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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  2. Ingo Rentschler

    1. Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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  3. Irving Biederman

    1. Image Understanding Laboratory, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. An Editorial Overview

    1. An Editorial Overview

      • Ingo Rentschler, Naoyuki Osaka, Irving Biederman
      Pages 1-10

  3. Object Recognition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Occlusion Awaits Disclosure

      • Gijs Plomp, Cees van Leeuwen
      Pages 13-25

    3. Functional MRI Evidence for Neural Plasticity at Early Stages of Visual Processing in Humans

      • Sophie Schwartz
      Pages 27-40

    4. Pattern Recognition in Direct and Indirect View

      • Hans Strasburger, Ingo Rentschler
      Pages 41-54

    5. Part-Based Strategies for Visual Categorisation and Object Recognition

      • Martin Jüttner
      Pages 55-70

    6. Recent Psychophysical and Neural Research in Shape Recognition

      • Irving Biederman
      Pages 71-88

    7. Object Recognition in Humans and Machines

      • Christian Wallraven, Heinrich H. Bülthoff
      Pages 89-104

    8. Prior Knowledge and Learning in 3D Object Recognition

      • Markus Gschwind, Hans Brettel, Ingo Rentschler
      Pages 105-117

    9. Neural Representation of Faces in Human Visual Cortex: the Roles of Attention, Emotion, and Viewpoint

      • Patrik Vuilleumier
      Pages 119-138

  4. Attention

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Object Recognition: Attention and Dual Routes

      • Volker Thoma, Jules Davidoff
      Pages 141-157

    3. Interactions Between Shape Perception and Egocentric Localization

      • Hiroyuki Sogo, Naoyuki Osaka
      Pages 159-171

    4. Feature Binding in Visual Working Memory

      • Jun Saiki
      Pages 173-185

    5. Biased Competition and Cooperation: A Mechanism of Mammalian Visual Recognition?

      • Gustavo Deco, Martin Stetter, Miruna Szabo
      Pages 187-203

  5. Action

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. Influence of Visual Motion on Object Localisation in Perception and Action

      • Hiroshi Ashida
      Pages 207-218

    3. Neural Substrates of Action Imitation Studied by fMRI

      • Shigeki Tanaka
      Pages 219-229

    4. Two Types of Anticipatory-Timing Mechanisms in Synchronization Tapping

      • Yoshihiro Miyake, Yohei Onishi, Ernst Pöppel
      Pages 231-244
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About this book

Human object recognition is a classical topic both for philosophy and for the natural sciences. The idea that visual recognition is action oriented developed in philosophy and psychology but inspired the approaches of sensory-motor integration in physiology and active vision in robotics. Attention, originally a psychological concept, is now a hot topic both for the neurosciences and computer science. Indeed, problems of competition among concurrent processes of data analysis, task requirements, and economic allocation of processing resources remain to be solved. Ultimately, understanding of object recognition will be promoted by the cooperation of behavioral research, neurophysiology, and computation.

This book provides an excellent introduction to the issues that are involved, with chapters that address the ways in which humans and machines attend to, recognize, and act toward objects in the visual environment.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Naoyuki Osaka

  • Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Ingo Rentschler

  • Image Understanding Laboratory, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

    Irving Biederman

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