Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I. Perceptual grouping and segmentation
Chapter1: What birds see and what they don't
William Hodos

Part II. Luminance, contrast, and spatial and temporal resolution
Chapter 2: Color vision in fish and other vertebrates
Christa Neumeyer

Chapter 3: Grouping and early visual processing in avian vision
Robert Cook and Carl Erick Hagmann

Chapter 4: Figure-ground segregation and object-based attention in birds
Olga Lazareva and Edward Wasserman

Chapter 5: Neurobiological foundations of figure-ground segregation in primates
Hans Supér

Chapter 6: Illusory perception in animals: Observations and interpretations
Edward Wasserman

Chapter 7: Amodal completion and illusory perception in birds and primates
Kazuo Fujita, Noriyuki Nakamura, Ayumi Sakai, Sota Watanabe, & Tomokazu Ushitani

Chapter 8: Neurobiology of perception of illusory contours in animals
Andreas Nieder

Part III. Object perception and object recognition

Chapter 9: How jumping spiders see the world
Duane P Harland, Daiqin Li and Robert R Jackson

Chapter 10: Visual discrimination by the honeybee (Apis mellifera)
Adrian Horridge

Chapter 11: Recognition by components: A birds' eye view
Edward A. Wasserman and Irving Biederman

Chapter 12: Birds' perception of depth and objects in pictures
Marcia L. Spetch and Ronald G. Weisman

Chapter 13: The recognition of rotated objects in animals
Jessie J. Peissig and Tamara Goode

Chapter 14: Neural mechanisms of object recognition in non-human primates
Rufin Vogels

Part IV. Motion perception

Chapter 15: Avian visual processing of motion and objects
Robert G. Cook and Matthew S. Murphy

Chapter 16: Neural mechanisms underlying visual motion detection in birds
Douglas R.W. Wylie and Andrew N. Iwaniuk

Chapter 17: Primate motion perception
Bart Krekelberg

Part V. Visual attention

Chapter 18: Primate visual attention: How studies of monkeys have shaped theories of selective visual processing
Pierre Pouget, Jason Arita and Geoffrey F. Woodman

Chapter 19: Selective and divided attention in pigeons
Tom Zentall

Chapter 20: Visual cognition in baboons: Attention to the global and local stimulus properties
Joel Fagot

Part VI. Different dimensions of visual perception

Chapter 21: Circadian visual system of mammals
Lawrence P. Morin

Part VII. Evolution of visual system

Chapter 22: Evolution of the brain in vertebrates: Overview
Ann B. Butler

Chapter 23: Evolution of the vertebrate eye
James K Bowmaker

Chapter 24: The avian visual system: Overview
Toru Shimizu and Shigeru Watanabe

Chapter 25: Development of the visual system in birds and mammals
Hans-Joachim Bischof

Chapter 26: Brain asymmetry in vertebrates
Onur Güntürkün

Postscript: Shaun Vecera

Index

About the Author

Olga F. Lazareva is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Drake University. Her research concentrates on behavioral and neurobiological aspects of visual perception and relational learning in humans and nonhuman animals.

Toru Shimizu is Professor of Psychology at the University of South Florida. His areas of research include the neural basis of vision and cognition in animals.

Edward A. Wasserman is Dewey B. and Velma P. Stuit Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Iowa and coeditor with Thomas Zentall of Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2006). He is a member of the Delta Center at the University of Iowa, dedicated to the investigation of learning, development, and change. Wasserman's research has centered on learning, memory, cognition, and perception in humans and nonhuman animals.

Reviews

"This is a serious book covering a complicated but fascinating topic. I recommend it for the serious reader, whether researcher, teacher, or student, who wants to know more about how animals see the world in all of the ways that seeing can be defined. This is a book that would certainly merit a spot on the bookshelf of comparative and evolutionary psychologists as well as behavioral and evolutionary biologists, as there is much in here to appreciate for each of
these groups." -- Michael J. Beran, PsycCRITIQUES
"This deep yet fascinating book is not quite what it seems from the title. Rather than "How Animals See the World," it should be "Visual Psychophysics of Birds and Primates." Ninety-eight percent of animals are invertebrates, and 85 percent of habitable space is aquatic; both are little represented here, though the salticid spiders and honeybees make an interesting contrast to vertebrate vision... The final section, on evolution of the vertebrate visual
system's structures and basic physiology, belongs first as a foundation. Nevertheless, the book is fascinating reading for the specialist in perception and the cognitive neuroscientist, though not the
beginner. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty." -- J. A. Mather, University of Lethbridge, CHOICE