Psychological Literature: Vision.

Foreign Medico-Psychological Literature

Foreign Psychological Literature

Dk. Hagen commences a very elaborate examination into the claims of anatomy to throw light upon mental affections, by some general remarks upon the progress of medical science, of which psychiatry is a branch, and one which, he remarks, has hitherto been viewed with some doubt and suspicion. The cause of this is "want of time" to pursue this definite branch of study whilst there are such multif...

Vision Based Vehicle Detection: A Literature Review

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are getting increasingly popular because road transport has grown dramatically. These systems are essential to improve driving comfort. Evolution of computer vision techniques, increased power of low-consumption embedded HW, and reduced costs of cameras makes ADAS becoming a reality in the market of intelligent vehicles. Small steps towards complete aut...

A Vision of the Future of Psychological Treatments

Policy statements on health care delivery are issued frequently by various committees and groups at the local, state, or federal level, and most are seldom read and quickly forgotten. Not so with policy statements from the National Academies, which was chartered by Congress in 1863 with a mandate to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters. Composed of three branches—th...

The neuroanatomy of phenomenal vision: a psychological perspective.

Somewhere in the visual system, phenomenal vision--the seeing of colors, brightness, depths, shades, and motion--is generated not only from the distribution of light on the retina, but also when the eyes are closed, in dreams, hallucinations, phosphenes, and (possibly) imagery. Whether these different forms of phenomenal vision share a common substrate although their origins are different (opti...