Peter H. Schiller is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Edward J. Tehovnik worked at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than twenty years studying vision and oculomotor control in behaving monkeys. He now works as CNPq Investigator for The Brain Institute at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, Brazil.
This is a clear, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the anatomy and physiology of the visual system and of basic principles of visual perception. Peter Schiller has made more original discoveries about the different parts of the visual system and the perceptual phenomena that they underlie than any living scientist. Charles G. Gross, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Princeton University Schiller and Tehovnik's book is an exemplary text. The authors do a tremendous job examining the relevant topics eye movements, information pathways, illusions, depth, and pattern perception Peter Schiller and Edward Tehovnik elegantly describe the neural processes and mechanisms that underlie vision, visual perception, and the control of visually-guided eye movements. The authors' analysis of parallel ON and OFF pathways, color, motion, depth and pattern vision, and eye movement control integrates findings from psychology, neurophysiology, anatomy, and pharmacology. This text is original, innovative, and is bound to have a far-reaching impact. I enthusiastically recommend it to all serious vision researchers, young and old. Lothar Spillmann, Department of Neurology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany