Optic Flow and Beyond

Optic flow provides all the information necessary to guide a walking human or a mobile robot to its target. Over the past 50 years, a body of research on optic flow spanning the disciplines of neurophysiology, psychophysics, experimental psychology, brain

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Editor-in-Chief

VINCENT F. HENDRICKS, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark JOHN SYMONS, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A. Honorary Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A.

Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands THEO A,F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands TEDDY SEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. JAN WOLENSKI, lagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

VOLUME 324

OPTIC FLOW AND BEYOND Edited by

LUCIA M. VAINA Boston University and Harvard University, US.A .

SCOTT A. BEARDSLEY Boston University, US.A.

and

SIMON K. RUSHTON Cardiff University, UK.

SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A c.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-90-481-6589-6 ISBN 978-1-4020-2092-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-2092-6

Printed on acid-free paper

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Contents List of Contributors Preface

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Section 1: OPTIC FLOW - NEUROPHYSIOLOGY & PSYCHOPHYSICS 1.

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Multiple Cortical Representations of Optic Flow Processing Milena Raffi and Ralph M Siegel Optic Flow and Vestibular Self-Movement Cues: MultiSensory Interactions in Cortical Area MST Charles J. DuffY and William K. Page

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A Visual Mechanism for Extraction of Heading Information in Complex Flow Fields Michael W von Griinau and Marta lordanova

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Eye Movements and an Object-Based Model of Heading Perception Ranxiao F. Wang and James E. Cutting

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Short-Latency Eye Movements: Evidence for Rapid, Parallel Processing of Optic Flow Fred A. Miles, C. Busettini, G. S. Masson, and D. S. Yang

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Functional Neuroanatomy of Heading Perception in Humans Lucia M Vaina and Sergei Soloviev

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The Event Structure of Motion Perception Martin H. Fischer and Heiko Hecht

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Section 2: OPTIC FLOW PROCESSING AND COMPUTATION

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Modeling Observer and Object Motion Perception Constance S. Royden

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Linking Perception and Neurophysiology for Motion Pattern Processing: The Computational Power of Inhibitory Connections in Cortex Scott A. Beardsley and Lucia M Vaina

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Circular Receptive Field Structures for Flow Analysis and Heading Detection Jaap A.Beintema, Albert V van den Berg, and Markus Lappe

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Parametric Measurements of Optic Flow by Humans Jose F. Barraza and Norberto M G