Visual processing

Visual processing is the sequence of steps that information takes as it flows from visual sensors to cognitive processing. The sensors may be zoological eyes or they may be cameras or sensor arrays that sense various portions of the electromagnetic spectrum.

See also

• Visual agnosia
• Visual cortex
• Visual perception
• Visual system

Further reading

• Boden C, Giaschi D (March 2007). "M-stream deficits and reading-related visual processes in developmental dyslexia". Psychol Bull 133 (2): 346–66. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.133.2.346. PMID 17338604. 
• Das M, Bennett DM, Dutton GN (November 2007). "Visual attention as an important visual function: an outline of manifestations, diagnosis and management of impaired visual attention". Br J Ophthalmol 91 (11): 1556–60. doi:10.1136/bjo.2006.104844. PMC 2095436. PMID 17301124. 
• Hellige JB (1996). "Hemispheric asymmetry for visual information processing". Acta Neurobiol Exp 56 (1): 485–97. PMID 8787209. 
• Kitahara K (March 2007). "[Physiology and pathology of visual information processing]". Nippon Ganka Gakkai Zasshi (in Japanese) 111 (3): 160–91; discussion 192. PMID 17402561. 
• Miles FA (March 1998). "The neural processing of 3-D visual information: evidence from eye movements". Eur. J. Neurosci. 10 (3): 811–22. doi:10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00112.x. PMID 9753150. 
• Vidyasagar TR (2005). "Attentional gating in primary visual cortex: a physiological basis for dyslexia". Perception 34 (8): 903–11. doi:10.1068/p5332. PMID 16178142. 

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