How do we see? Masland R.

We easily recognize a loved one in a crowd of strangers, and this ability seems elementary. But how does vision really work? How do we distinguish faces, recognize familiar objects and focus on the ground? How does our brain process and comprehend visual information - spots of light, contours and colors? Harvard neurobiologist Richard Masland devoted his book to vision - from retina to visual centers in the temporal cortex. He talks about all aspects of vision, the structure of our eyes, the processes of perception and comprehension of signals. Readers are waiting for a scientific journey through the laboratories of neurobiologists, brilliantly set out information about the latest experiments in vision and an occasion to think about how we see other people and the world around.

We will consider the process of visual perception step by step. You will learn that we see the world not at all the same as it is: our retina breaks it into many separate fragments (signals) and sends them to the brain through individual channels, each of which carries information about one small aspect of the image. << /p>