The Processes of Visual Perception.
Abstract
This report summarizes the contents of a book entitled The Processes of Visual Perception written during the course of this contract. The book presents a classification system of visual processes that organizes and arranges the extensive data base of perceptual science. The taxonomy consists of 6 levels: Level 0, Preneural Transformations; Level 1, Receptor Transformations; Level 2, Neural Network Transformations; Level 3, Figural Organization Processes; Level 4, Multidimensional Interactions; and Level 5 Image Manipulation. (Level 5 is not discussed in this book. It will be the topic of the next book in the series of which this present one is the third volume.) This progress report presents a brief summary of each of the chapters in the book as well as the entire last chapter. This final epilog, entitled 'Emerging Principles of Visual Perception' was the target towards which this entire research project was aimed. At the outset of the book, it was asserted that the major contribution it could make would be the statement of current thinking in the field of perceptual science. This list of principles, as well as the taxonomy itself, is a synthetic and integrative metatheory of perceptual processing as our science sees it in the last third of the twentieth century. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA074215
Entities
People
- William R. Uttal
Organizations
- University of Michigan