Basic Vision

• The first text to make this topic truly accessible to an undergraduate audience - the ideal teaching and learning resource for lecturers and students alike.
• Boxes augment the text by either taking students deeper into the subject, or offering further explanations of key concepts, to ensure that the student develops a fully rounded understanding of the subject.
• Full colour artwork conveys important principles in a visually stimulating way, enhancing the educational value of the text.
• Absorbing and engaging writing style helps to motivate the student by drawing them into the subject rather than intimidating them, helping to build the students' confidence in this challenging subject.
• Online Resource Centre features resources for both the lecturer and student, making the book easy to both teach and learn from.

Readership: Intermediate and advanced level undergraduates of psychology and neuroscience. Also of interest to postgraduate students who require an accessible introduction to the field.

Robert Snowden, Cardiff University, Peter Thompson, University of York, and Tom Troscianko, University of Bristol

"...an impressive range of topics makes this textbook an ideal choice for teaching either a course on vision, or for selecting this book together with others to teach a course on cognitive processes." - Psychology Teaching Review

"The book is very clear and easy to read. I could not help contrasting it with the work of many other authors, who seem to think that difficulty in reading their books or articles is evidence of their superior intellect. Its target audience of undergraduates will find it very easy to follow and it would not even be out of place in a public library. This is certainly a book which would enhance your university's library. If you like its approach, it would make a good set book for a vision course." - Mike Griffiths, Goldsmiths College in Psychology Learning and Teaching, March 2007.

"I cannot but write how much I enjoy the book, which since then became my favourite while lecturing in General Psychology (perception). I really appreciate its up-to-date contents; also, no other book on psychology brought so much fun." - Dr G Paramei, Interim Professor of Psychology, Darmstadt University of Technology

"Congratulations to you and your colleagues for having written a truly outstanding beginner's textbook on vision and visual consciousness. I am a newcomer to this scientific field but your book was the perfect introductory material for me-I consider myself very lucky indeed that I chanced across it! I do hope that your undergraduate readers will find Basic Vision as interesting, and hilariously witty, as I did." - Dr L. A. Flippin, Director of Medicinal Chemistry, Fibrogen Inc, USA

"The quality of this book reflects the fact that, between them, the three authors boast over 80 years experience of teaching visual perception. I plan to adopt this text in my final year undergraduate teaching and I would certainly recommend others to do the same. Good science can be fun, and this book exemplifies that." - Colin WG Clifford, University of Sydney, THES November 2006

0: A trailer to the book
1: The first steps in seeing
2: Signalling changes
3: To the cortex
4: Spatial vision
5: Colour vision
6: The perception of motion
7: The third dimension
8: The development of vision
9: Attention and neglect
10: The perception of faces
11: Vision and action
12: How we know it might be so...