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Visual Attention and Cortical Circuits
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262316170
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 313 pages) :illustrations (some color)
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Drawing on architecture :the object of lines, 1970-1990
How architectural drawings emerged as aesthetic objects, promoted by a network of galleries, collectors, and institutions, and how this changed the understanding of architecture. Prior to the 1970s, buildings were commonly understood to be the goal of architectural practice; architectural drawings were seen simply as a means to an end. But, just as the boundaries of architecture itself were shi…
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- 9780262344401
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- 1 online resource (384 pages).
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Nonhuman Photography
"Today, in the age of CCTV, drones, medical body scans, and satellite images, photography is increasingly decoupled from human agency and human vision. In Nonhuman Photography, Joanna Zylinska offers a new philosophy of photography, going beyond the human-centric view to consider imaging practices from which the human is absent. Zylinska argues further that even those images produced by humans,…
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- 9780262343367
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- 1 online resource (viii, 257 pages) :illustrations
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Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Gover…
Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable to human error and technical malfunctioning that have far-reaching consequences: one flipped switch can cause a cascading power failure across a networked electric grid. Yet, once addressed, vulnerability accompanied by coping mechanisms may yield a more flexible and resil…
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- 0262323133
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- 1 online resource (xi, 382 pages).
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Pirate Politics: The New Information Policy Contests
An examination of the Pirate political movement in Europe analyzes its advocacy for free expression and the preservation of the Internet as a commons.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262320146
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Visual Reconstruction
Visual Reconstruction presents a unified and highly original approach to the treatment of continuity in vision. It introduces, analyzes, and illustrates two new concepts. The first -- the weak continuity constraint -- is a concise, computational formalization of piecewise continuity. It is a mechanism for expressing the expectation that visual quantities such as intensity, surface color, and su…
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- 9780262255769
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- 1 online resource (225 pages) :illustrations.
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The Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction
A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies. The emergence of the environmental humanities as an academic discipline early in the twenty-first century reflects the growing conviction that environmental problems cannot be solved by science and technology alone. This book offers…
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- 9780262342292
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Computational Psychiatry: New Perspectives on Mental Illness
Psychiatrists and neuroscientists discuss the potential of computational approaches to address problems in psychiatry including diagnosis, treatment, and integration with neurobiology."Modern psychiatry is at a crossroads, as it attempts to balance neurological analysis with psychological assessment. Computational neuroscience offers a new lens through which to view such thorny issues as diagno…
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- 9780262337854
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Vision how it works and what can go wrong
"Over the past fifty years, enormous progress has been made in understanding visual mechanisms and treating eye disorders. And yet the scientist is not always aware of the latest clinical advances and the clinician is often not up to date on the basic scientific discoveries. Writing in nontechnical language, John and Joseph Dowling, a neuroscientist and an ophthalmologist, examine vision from b…
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- 9780262333566
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- 1 online resource (xx, 204 pages) :illustrations
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