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The Vision Revolution : How The Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew About Human Vision

  • The Vision Revolution : How The Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew About Human Vision

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    Mark Changizi

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    Book, Benbella Books, 2009

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    Primates evolved binocular vision (both eyes facing forward) so that they can see in three dimensions, critical as they jumped from branch to branch. The Vision Revolution answers these questions, and proves, with the detailed results of Changizi’s fieldwork, that the answers are very different than traditionally believed. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     BROWSING (MAIN)  QP475 .C43 2009  DUE 12-21-09

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The Fruit, The Tree, And The Serpent : Why We See So Well

  • The Fruit, The Tree, And The Serpent : Why We See So Well

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    Lynne A. Isbell

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    Book, Harvard University Press, 2009

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    It might have also figured in later human behavior: snakes, this book eloquently argues, may well have given bipedal hominins, already equipped with a non-human primate communication system, the evolutionary nudge to point to communicate for social good, a critical step toward the evolution of language, and all that followed. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     BROWSING (MAIN)  GN281.4 .I82 2009  AVAILABLE

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How To Use Your Eyes

  • How To Use Your Eyes

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    James Elkins

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    Book, Routledge, 2008

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    “How to Use Your Eyes” is a wondrous visual tour that Elkins hopes will help us ‘learn to use our eyes more concertedly until the details of the world slowly reveal themselves.’ Readers will be inspired to stop and smell - nay, see - the roses’ - “Booklist”.’Elkins invites his readers to extend perception beyond narrow specialties to see meaning in the mundane. In the tradition of John Berger’s bestselling “Ways of Seeing”, James Elkins’ “How to Use your Eyes” invites us to look at - and maybe see for the first time - the world around us, with breathtaking results. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QP475.5 .E456 2008  AVAILABLE

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Downcast Eyes : The Denigration Of Vision In Twentieth- Century French Thought

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Fact And Fiction Of Healthy Vision : Eye Care For Adults And Children

  • Fact And Fiction Of Healthy Vision : Eye Care For Adults And Children

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    Clyde K. Kitchen

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    Book, Praeger, 2007

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    Dr. Kitchen describes time-tested, proven techniques, as well as new treatments and surgeries changing the nature of eye care, including refractive surgery options. Conditions described range from dry eye to ocular migraines, lazy eye, cataracts, glaucoma, and eye cancer. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  RE51 .K58 2007  AVAILABLE

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Perception And Illusion : Historical Perspectives

  • Perception And Illusion : Historical Perspectives

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    Nicholas J. Wade

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    Book, Springer Science, 2005

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    This examination of perception is described in chapters devoted to historical periods from the Greeks to the present time following themes of adaptation and how the senses are linked to an intricately organized brain which not only helps us perceive what is necessary for survival, but also creates links from the patterns of sensory stimulation to language and thought. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BF241 .W3195 2005  AVAILABLE

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The Architecture Of The Visible

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Sight

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An Introduction To The Biology Of Vision

  • An Introduction To The Biology Of Vision

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    James T. McIlwain

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    Book, Cambridge University Press, 1996

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    This main goals of this text are to provide undergraduates with a working vocabulary and knowledge of the biology of vision and to acquaint them with the major themes in biological vision research. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QP475 .M37 1996  AVAILABLE

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An Introduction To The Visual System

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The Object Stares Back : On The Nature Of Seeing

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Vision : Coding And Efficiency

  • Vision : Coding And Efficiency

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    edited by Colin Blakemore

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    Book, 1st paperback ed, Cambridge University Press, 1993

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    The approach has recently acquired new significance due to the growing interest of computer science and artificial intelligence in the processes of vision, which attempts to describe visual processes in algorithmic terms, equally relevant to a robotic visual system, the eye of a fly or the complex visual pathways in the human brain. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QP475 .V574 1993  AVAILABLE

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A Vision Of The Brain

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The Mind’s Eye : Readings From Scientific American

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Eye, Brain, And Vision

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