Casanova C., Ptito M. (Eds.) Vision: From Neurons to Cognition

Boston: Elsevier, 2001. — 482 p.Internationally renowned researchers discuss how the various parts of the brain process and integrate visual signals, providing up to date original findings, reviews, and theoretical proposals on visual processing.This book addresses the basic mechanisms of visual perception as well as issues such as neuronal plasticity, functional reorganization and recovery, residual vision, and sensory substitution. Knowledge of the basic mechanisms by which our brain can analyze, reconstruct, and interpret images in the external world is of fundamental importance for our capacity to understand the nature and causes of visual deficits, such as those resulting from ischemia, abnormal development, neuro-degenerative disorders, and normal aging. It is also essential to our goal of developing better therapeutic strategies, such as early diagnosis, visual training, behavioral rehabilitation of visual functions, and visual implants.List of contributorsGlutamate-mediated responses in developing retinal ganglion cells
The dynamics of primate retinal ganglion cells
BDNF/trkB signaling in the developmental sculpting of visual connections
Thalamic relay functions
Higher-order motion processing in the pulvinar
Response properties in the pulvinar complex after neonatal ablation of the primary visual cortex
The superior colliculus and its control of fixation behavior via projections to brainstem omnipause neurons
A possible role of the superior colliculus in eye-hand coordination
Look and see: how the brain moves your eyes about
Nonvisual influences on visual-information processing in the superior colliculus
Beyond the classical receptive field in the visual cortex
Processing of second-order stimuli in the visual cortex
The role of feedback connections in shaping the responses of visual cortical neurons
Cortical mechanisms of binocular stereoscopic vision
Cortical plasticity revealed by circumscribed retinal lesions or artificial scotomas
Neural analysis of visual information during locomotion
Behavioral cartography of visual functions in cat parietal cortex: areal and laminar dissociations
Visual cortex organization in primates: theories of V3 and adjoining visual areas
From attentional gating in macaque primary visual cortex to dyslexia in humans
Different spaces and different times for perception and action
Asymmetrical masking between radial and parallel motion flow in transparent displays
Speculations on the neural basis of islands of blindsight
‘Seeing’ in the blind hemifield following hemispherectomy
Visual pathways following cerebral hemispherectomy
From visual consciousness to spectral absorption in the human retina
Tickling the brain: studying visual sensation, perception and cognition by transcranial magnetic stimulation
The metamodal organization of the brain
When the auditory cortex turns visual
Attentional selection and the processing of task-irrelevant information: insights from fMRI examinations of the Stroop task
Object-based attention and object working memory: overlapping processes revealed by selective interference effects in humans
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