Vision and Brain

Very good book for visual researchers and those who want to understand how we perceive the world.

In science mathematical modeling is considered the (often temporarily) final step in the explanatory process. Based on empirical data an explanatory hypothesis is developed and supported by a mathematical model of the process. If the model is found applicable under various conditions it is considered a valid (if perhaps not the only) explanation for a particular process in this world. Somewhat detailed mathematical models of vision and, in particular, color vision have been initiated in the second half of the 19th century. With the developments in neurobiology in the last 20 years much more has been learned about how stimuli entering the eye are processed in the brain. Much of this is related to the phenomenon called consciousness about which the millennia-old philosophical controversies continue unabated. In "Vision and Brain" Stone presents a useful, well-referenced state-of-of-the-art picture of the developments in the general field of vision, showing that human vision is a highly efficient guessing machine about what is in front of our face. That all the details of these processes have not yet been resolved is due mainly to the huge complexity of the processing in the brain. The book can be recommended as a mid-level introduction to these complexities and what is so far known about them in regard to vision. For this reader the only disappointment was that of the 224 pages of text in the book only 24 are devoted to color.

The inside condition is acceptable, but the outsides are horrible. It was a rental book, passed by many hands.

This book isn't compatible with those formats. Anyone know how to return a kindle book? because this is useless to me.