Preface Francis Crick

Editors' introduction

Part I. The Essence of Images Jonathan Miller

1. What does the brain see? How does it understand Horace Barlow

2. Pictorial instructions Ernst Gombrich

3. Computer-generated cartoons Don Pearson, E. Hanna and K. Martinez

4. The tricks of colour John Mollon

Part II. Movement Nicholas Humphrey: 5. Benesh: the notation of dance Monica Parker and Kenneth MacMillan

6. Three stages in the classification of body movements by visual neurons David Perrett, M. Harries, A. J. Mistlin and A. J. Chitty

7. What does gesture add to the spoken word? Peter Bull

8. Visual processing of moving images Anthony Movshon

Part III. Narration Mel Calman: 9. Narration with words David Lodge

10. Animal language John Krebs

11. Are the signs of language arbitrary? Margaret Deuchar

12. Moving pictures Jonathan Miller

Part 4. Making Images Christopher Longuet-Higgins: 13. Vision in other animals Michael Land

14. Linking perception and graphics: modeling with dynamic constraints Andrew Witkin, Michael Karr, Demetri Terzopoulos and Alan Barr

15. Understanding the digital image John Lansdown

16. The draughtsman's contract: how an artist creates an image John Willats

Part V. Images and Thought Richard Held: 17. Understanding images in the brain Colin Blakemore

18. Images of the functioning human brain Marcus Raichle

19. Thinking with a computer Daniel Dennett

20. How do we interpret images? Richard Gregory

Part VI. Images and Meaning Margaret Drabble: 21. Scientific images: perception and deception Jon Darius

22. Pictures in the mind? Nelson Goodman

Postscript

Notes

Index.