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Author | : Jon H. Kaas |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2003-07-28 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0203507592 |
The last 20 years of research have been marked by exceptional progress in understanding the organization and functions of the primate visual system. This understanding has been based on the wide application of traditional and newly emerging methods for identifying the functionally significant subdivisions of the system, their interconnections, the
Author | : Jan Kremers |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2005-12-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0470868104 |
Many recent developments in the field in recording, staining, genetic and stimulation techniques, in vivo, and in vitro have significantly increased the amount of available data on the primate visual system. Written with contributions from key neurobiologists in the field, The Primate Visual System will provide the reader with the latest developments, examining the structure, function and evolution of the primate visual system. The book takes a comparative approach as a basis for studying the physiological properties of primate vision and examines the phylogenetic relationship between the visual systems of different primate species. Taken from a neurobiologist’s perspective this book provides a unique approach to the study of primate vision as a basis for further study into the human visual system. Altogether an important overview of the structure, function and evolution of the primate visual system from a neurobiologist’s perspective, written specifically for higher level undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in neuroscience, physiology, optics/ visual science, as well as a valuable read to researchers new to the field.
Author | : Helga Kolb |
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Release | : 2007 |
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Author | : Steven F. Zornetzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Computer systems |
ISBN | : |
This presentation of the foremost research and theory from disciplines that provide the foundations of neural network research--neurobiology, physics, computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, and psychology--shows how neural networks and neurocomputing represent radical departures from conventional approaches to digital computers, in terms of algorithms and architecture.
Author | : V. A. Casagrande |
Publisher | : Gulf Professional Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2005-10-17 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780444516794 |
Almost all of the messages that are received by the cerebral cortex from the environment or from the body's internal receptors come through the thalamus and much current thought about perceptual processing is based on sensory pathways that relay in the thalamus. This volume focuses on three major areas: the role of thalamocortical communication in cognition and attention; the role of the thalamus in communication between cortical areas; the hypothesis that much or all of the information relayed by thalamus, even to classical, pure "sensory" areas of cortex, represents a corollary message being sent simultaneously to motor centers. It presents a broad overview of important recent advances in these areas. * Provides a look at brain structures involved in perception and action * Includes summaries by leading investigators in the field * Presents recent advances in our understanding of brain functions
Author | : Peter H. Schiller |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0199936536 |
'Vision and the Visual System' offers students, teachers and researchers a rigorous, yet accessible account of how the brain analyses the visual scene. Schiller and Tehovnik describe key aspects of visual perception such as colour, motion, pattern and depth while explaining the relationship between eye movements and neural structures in the brain.
Author | : John Simon Werner |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 975 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Cell physiology |
ISBN | : 0262033089 |
An essential reference book for visual science.
Author | : Henry Kennedy |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2016-03-10 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 3319277774 |
This book has brought together leading investigators who work in the new arena of brain connectomics. This includes ‘macro-connectome’ efforts to comprehensively chart long-distance pathways and functional networks; ‘micro-connectome’ efforts to identify every neuron, axon, dendrite, synapse, and glial process within restricted brain regions; and ‘meso-connectome’ efforts to systematically map both local and long-distance connections using anatomical tracers. This book highlights cutting-edge methods that can accelerate progress in elucidating static ‘hard-wired’ circuits of the brain as well as dynamic interactions that are vital for brain function. The power of connectomic approaches in characterizing abnormal circuits in the many brain disorders that afflict humankind is considered. Experts in computational neuroscience and network theory provide perspectives needed for synthesizing across different scales in space and time. Altogether, this book provides an integrated view of the challenges and opportunities in deciphering brain circuits in health and disease.
Author | : Bevil R. Conway |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2002-07-31 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781402070921 |
From the Foreword by Nobel Laureate David Hubel: "We now have the first clear demonstration of double opponent cells in the primate visual system. Given the temperament of those who work in the field of color vision there seems little doubt that heated debates will continue, but for the present at least, the subject seems to be as close to settled as such things can be in science." How the brain represents color remains one of the most controversial topics in neurophysiology. We know that color is represented through an opponent mechanism, demonstrated by the fact that some colors are exclusive of others. Yet how these antagonistic chromatic axes are represented in the cortex has been a mystery. Dr. Conway mapped the spatial and temporal structure of the cone inputs to single neurons in the primary visual cortex of the alert macaque. Color cells had receptive fields that were often Double-Opponent, an organization of spatial and chromatic opponency sufficient to form the basis for color constancy and spatial color contrast. Almost all color cells gave a bigger response to color when preceded by an opposite color, suggesting that these cells also encode temporal color contrast. In sum, color perception is likely subserved by a subset of specialized neurons in the primary visual cortex. These cells are distinct from those that likely underlie form and motion perception. Color cells establish three color axes sufficient to describe all colors; moreover these cells are capable of computing spatial and temporal color contrast - and probably contribute to color constancy computations - because the receptive fields of these cells show spatial and temporal chromatic opponency.
Author | : Martin J. Tovée |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2008-07-03 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1139472674 |
Building on the successful formula of the first edition, Martin Tovée offers a concise but detailed account of how the visual system is organised and functions to produce visual perception. He takes his readers from first principles; the structure and function of the eye and what happens when light enters, to how we see and process images, recognise patterns and faces, and through to the most recent discoveries in molecular genetics and brain imaging, and how they have uncovered a host of new advances in our understanding of how visual information is processed within the brain. Incorporating new material throughout, including almost 50 new images, every chapter has been updated to include the latest research, and culminates in helpful key points, which summarise the lessons learnt. This book is an invaluable course text for students within the fields of psychology, neuroscience, biology and physiology.