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Index
Cover
Title
Preface
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Impulses, Synapses, and Circuits
2.1 The Membrane Potential
2.2 The Impulse
2.3 Synaptic Transmission
2.4 A Typical Neural Pathway
2.5 The Visual Pathway
2.6 Voluntary Movement
3. The Eye
3.1 The Eyeball
3.2 The Retina
3.3 The Receptive Fields of Retinal Ganglion Cells: The output of the eye
3.4 The Concept of a Receptive Field
3.5 The Overlap of Receptive Fields
3.6 Dimensions of Receptive Fields
3.7 The Photoreceptors
3.8 Bipolar Cells and Horizontal Cells
3.9 Amacrine Cells
3.10 Connections Between Bipolar Cells and Ganglion Cells
3.11 The Significance of Center-Surround Fields
3.12 Conclusion
4. The Primary Visual Cortex
4.1 Topographic Representation
4.2 Responses of Lateral Geniculate Cells
4.3 Left and Right in the Visual Pathway
4.4 Layering of the Lateral Geniculate
4.5 Responses of Cells in the Cortex
4.6 Simple Cells
4.7 Complex Cells
4.8 Directional Slectivity
4.9 The Significance of Movement-Sensitive Cells
4.10 End Stopping
4.11 The Implications of Single-Cell Physiology for Perception
4.12 Binocular Convergence
5. The Architecture of the Visual Cortex
5.1 Anatomy of the Visual Cortex
5.2 Layers of the Visual Cortex
5.3 Architecture of the Cortex
5.4 Exploration of the Cortex
5.5 Variations in Complexity
5.6 Ocular-Dominace Columns
5.7 Oirentation Columns
5.8 Maps of the Cortex
6. Magnification and Modules
6.1 The Scatter and Drift of Receptive Fields
6.2 Units of Function in the Cortex
6.3 Deformation of the Cortex
7. The Corpus Callosum and Stereopsis
7.1 The Corpus Callosum
7.2 Studies of the Physiology of the Callosum
7.3 Stereopsis
7.4 The Physiology of Stereopsis
7.5 Some Difficulties Posed by Stereopsis
7.6 Stereoblindness
8. Color Vision
8.1 The Nature of Light
8.2 Pigments
8.3 Visual Receptors
8.4 General Comments on Color
8.5 Theories of Color Vision
8.6 The Genetics of Visual Pigments
8.7 The Hering Theory
8.8 Color and the Spatial Variable
8.9 The Physiology of Color Vision: Early Results
8.10 The Neural Basis of Color Constancy
8.11 Blobs
8.12 Conclusion
9. Deprivation and Development
9.1 Recovery
9.2 The Nature of the Defect
9.3 Strabismus
9.4 The Anatomical Consequences of Deprivation
9.5 Normal Development of Eye-Dominance Columns
9.6 Further Studies in Neural Plasticity
9.7 The Role of Patterned Activity in Neural Development
9.8 The Broader Implications of Deprivation Results
10. Present and Future
Further Reading
Source of Illustration
Index
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