From Pigments to Perception - Advances in Understanding the Visual Process - Workshop Proceedings (Hardcover, New)

Biophysics and Psychophysics of Photoreceptors.- Visual Pigments and Colour Vision in Primates.- The Cost of Trichromaticity for Spatial Vision.- Variability in Cone Populations and Implications.- Discussion: Biophysics and Psychophysics of Photoreceptor.- Transition from Photopic to Scotopic Light Assessments and Possible Underlying Processes.- Dual Rod Pathways.- Wavelength-Discrimination with Only Rods and Blue Cones.- Density of Bipolar Cells in the Macaque Monkey Retina.- Discussion: Rod Vision.- Parvocellular and Magnocellular Pathways and Psychophysics.- Which Cells Code for Color?.- Receptive Field Structure of P and M Cells in the Monkey Retina.- On the Relation between Cellular Sensitivity and Psychophysical Detection.- P and M Pathway Specialization in the Macaque.- The Color-Opponent and Broad-band Channels of the Primate Visual System.- Discussion: P- and M-Pathways I.- Temporal Characteristics of Colour Vision: VEP and Psychophysical Measurements.- The Contribution of Colour to Motion.- Functional Classification of Parallel Pathways.- The Responses of Macaque Retinal Ganglion Cells to Complex Temporal Waveforms.- Remote Surrounds and the Sensitivity of Primate P-Cells.- On Neurophysiological Correlates of Simultaneous Colour and Brightness Contrast as Demonstrated in P-LGN-Cells of the Macaque.- Development of Infant Contrast Sensitivity and Acuity for Coloured Patterns.- Psychophysical Evidence of two Gradients of Neural Sampling in Peripheral Vision.- Discussion: P- and M-Pathways II.- Visual Evoked Potentials.- On the Nature of Visual Evoked Potentials, Unit Responses and Psychophysics.- Localization of the Electromagnetic Sources of the Pattern Onset Response in Man.- Discussion: Evoked Potentials.- Cortical Processing and Psychophysical Measurement.- Probing the Primate Visual Cortex: Pathways and Perspectives.- Lateral Interactions in Visual Cortex.- The Perceptual Significance of Cortical Organization.- Orientation and Spatial Frequency Selectivity: Properties and Modular Organization.- Orientation and Color Columns in Monkey Striate Cortex.- Discussion: Cortical Processing.- Psychophysical Studies and Post-Receptoral Processes.- Visual Photometry: Relating Psychophysics to some Aspects of Neurophysiology.- Sensory and Perceptual Processes in Seeing Brightness and Lightness.- Assimilation Versus Contrast.- On Achromatic Colors.- Color Opponency from Eye to Brain.- Chromatic Mechanisms beyond Linear Opponency.- Discussion: Psychophysics and Post-Receptoral Processes I.- Adaptation Mechanisms in Color and Brightness.- Testing the Contrast Explanation of Color Constancy.- Adaptation and Color Discrimination.- Studies on Colour Constancy in Man Using a "Checkerboard - Mondrian".- Discussion: Post-Receptoral Processes II.- Models, Neural Processes and Psychophysics.- Origin of Perceptually Measured Phase Shifts in the Visual System.- Psychophysical Correlates of Parvo Channel Function.- On the Physiological Basis of Higher Colour Metrics.- Neural Decoding.- Effects of Phase Shifts between Cone Inputs on Responses of Chromatically Opponent Cells.- Different Neural Codes for Spatial Frequency and Contrast.- Displacement Estimation, Stereo Matching and 'Object' Recognition: A Computer Simulation Approach Working with Real World Imagery.- Scaling and Thresholds of Color and Light Described by an Opponent Model of Color Vision Based on Psychophysical Data.- Discussion: Models and Neural Nets.- General Discussion.- Participants.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	NATO Science Series A: Life Sciences, 203
Release date:	July 1991
First published:	1991
Editors:	Arne Valberg • Barry B. Lee
Dimensions:	235 x 159 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	482
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-43905-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Animal physiology Promotions
LSN:	0-306-43905-0
Barcode:	9780306439056

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