Filling-In - From Perceptual Completion to Cortical Reorganization (Hardcover)

The best example of filling-in involves the blind spot, a region of the retina devoid of photoreceptors. Remarkably, the region of visual space corresponding to the blind spot is not perceived as a dark region in space, but instead as having the same colour and texture as the surrounding background; hence the expression "filling in." While this type of perceptual completion phenomenon is common in the visual domain, it is argued by the leading scientists who contribute to this book that forms of filling-in also take place in other sensory modalities, including the auditory, somatosensory, and motor systems. In a concluding chapter an integrative approach is taken, which attempts to provide a common framework for completion phenomena occurring on a fast time scale, and cortical reorganization in sensory and motor cortex induced by peripheral damage or skill learning taking place on a slower time scale. It is proposed that systematic changes in the interplay between inhibitory and excitatory inputs permit cortical neurons to become driven by new sources of input, which, in addition to initial perceptual consequences can lead to a long-term structural reorganization of cortex.

This book represents a truly interdisciplinary approach to neuroscience, with chapters covering computational modelling, visual psychophysics, functional brain imaging, single-cell physiology, and clinical patient cases. It will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, vision science, neuroimaging, perceptual psychology, computational neuroscience, and philosophy of mind.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2003
First published:	February 2003
Editors:	Luiz Pessoa (Research Fellow, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition) • Peter De Weerd (Assistant Professor of Psychology)
Dimensions:	245 x 166 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-514013-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Perception Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences Promotions
LSN:	0-19-514013-3
Barcode:	9780195140132

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