Dynamics of visual motion processing: neuronal, behavioral, and computational approaches

Motion processing is an essential piece of the complex brain machinery that allows us to reconstruct the 3D layout of objects in the environment, to break camouflage, to perform scene segmentation, to estimate the ego movement, and to control our action. Although motion perception and its neural basis have been a topic of intensive research and modeling the last two decades, recent experimental evidences have stressed the dynamical aspects of motion integration and segmentation. This book presents the most recent approaches that have changed our view of biological motion processing. These new experimental evidences call for new models emphasizing the collective dynamics of large population ofneurons rather than the properties of separate individual filters. Chapters will stress how the dynamics of motion processing can be used as a general approach to understand the brain dynamics itself. Only book on biological motion to provide DVD as support material Stresses how the dynamics of motion processing can be used as a general approach to understand the brain dynamics itself INDICE: Part I Low-level cortical dynamic motion processing. Motion integration: psychophysics. Dynamics of motion integration. Dynamics of pattern motion computation. Population activity for motion encoding.- Part II Object motion computation: higher-level dynamics. Contextual motion integration in V1. Role of feedback in motion integration. Second-order motion stimuli: a handle to motion processing. Higher motion processing: cortical pathways.- Part III Active vision, pursuit and motion perception. Intra saccadic motion: perception and physiology. Perceptual stability of the visual world during pursuit. Motion detection and integration for reflexive tracking. Pursuing objects: from motion detection to trajectory prediction. Pursuit and coherent motion perception.-Part IV Modeling dynamical processing. Natural scene statistics and optic flow. Inferential models in motion integration. Dynamical models of motion integration. Biological motion processing.

• ISBN: 978-1-4419-0780-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 374
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés