Active vision: Visual activity in everyday life

Active vision: Visual activity in everyday life

Recent studies that consider how vision is used in everyday life have led to a new perspective in visual science, in which more emphasis is placed on the active role of the viewer.

Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Aesthetics of everyday life is one of the branches of aesthetic knowledge. Until the 20th century, classical aesthetics focused on the subject of visual arts and paid less attention to the formation of fine arts in the context of human and nature’s daily life experience. During the last few decades, a movement emerged that, by avoiding that one-sided art-oriented approach, tried to create a clo...

Visual exploration of everyday life situations in schizophrenia

Absence (of saccades) makes the heart grow fonder (of neural field models). Quality of life in infantile nystagmus Prof Graham Barnes The influence of cues and stimulus history on the ocular pursuit response to randomized target motion. The role of predictive mechanisms for pursuit eye movements in psychotic disorders. Perception and oculomotor actions: no dissociation with Titchener either. Sa...

Visual Attention: The Active Vision Perspective

This chapter discusses the relationship between covert visual attention and overt movements of the eyes. One of the most frequently emphasised facts concerning visual attention is the ability to attend covertly to a location in the visual field without directing the eyes to that location. Based on this, the “mental spotlight” metaphor has been widely prevalent and has given rise to much experim...

What is Life after Active Vision ?