The Joy of Visual Perception             

      Table of Contents


  1. Copyright page
  2. How To Use This Book
  3. Preface
  4. How to prepare for a school project
  1. Introduction
      Glossary
  2. Questions for Prof. Kaiser
  3. Fun Things In Vision
  4. Master Diagram of the Eye
  5. Visual Acuity
  6. Visual Sensitivity
  7. Color/Color Vision
  8. Measuring Spectral Sensitivity
  9. Distance Perception
  10. Size Perception
  11. Shape Constancy
  12. Spatial Frequency Adaptation
  13. Adapting to Darkness and Lightness
  14. Motion Perception
  15. Physics of the Visual Stimulus
  16. Fourier analysis; basics
  17. Point & line spread functions
  18. Some Basic Neurophysiology
    1. Eye Cross Section
    2. Neurons
      1. Retina
      2. Receptors
    3. Receptive Fields
  19. Phototherapy
  20. Physiological Response To Color
  21. Interesting links connect you to perception relevant home pages
  22. Subject Index
  23. References
  24. Suggested Readings in Visual Perception

This book is constantly under development. Critical comments gratefully received by ( Peter Kaiser)