The Psychophysics of Detection. Review of Visual Pattern Analyzers, by N. V. S. Graham.

Abstract Norma V. S. Graham is Professor of Psychology at Columbia University, where she has been since 1972. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Spatial Vision and an Associate Editor of Perception and Psychophysics. Her major reseach emphasis is developing and testing psychophysical models of the early stages of the human visual system. Her extensive publications in this area include the chapter "Complex channels, early local nonlinearities, and normalization in texture segregation" in Computational Models of Visual Processing, L. Landy and J. A. Movshon, Eds., MIT Press, 1990. Stanley A. Klein is a Professor of Physiological Optics at the University of California at Berkeley. His Ph.D. is in Theoretical Particle Physics. In addition to the topics covered by Graham's book, his research interests include modeling hyperacuity and motion in central and peripheral vision, nonlinear analysis of biopotentials, and how the duality of quantum mechanics is applicable to the mind-brain duality. Christopher W. Tyler is an Associate Director of the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute. He has degrees in Psychology (B.A.), Applied Psychology (M.Sc.) and Neurocommunication (Ph.D.). The last of these encapsulates his range of research activities, which include the psychophysics of visual signal processing; studies of the perception of form, color, motion, stereopsis and their interactions; analysis or human brain potentials from birth to adulthood; and mathematical approaches to human and machine pattern recognition.