The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference, Second Edition, Seven Volume Set is a comprehensive reference work covering the range of topics that constitute current knowledge of the neural mechanisms underlying the different senses. This important work provides the most up-to-date, cutting-edge, comprehensive reference combining volumes on all major sensory modalities in one set. Offering 264 chapters from a distinguished team of international experts, The Senses lays out current knowledge on the anatomy, physiology, and molecular biology of sensory organs, in a collection of comprehensive chapters spanning 4 volumes. Topics covered include the perception, psychophysics, and higher order processing of sensory information, as well as disorders and new diagnostic and treatment methods. Written for a wide audience, this reference work provides students, scholars, medical doctors, as well as anyone interested in neuroscience, a comprehensive overview of the knowledge accumulated on the function of sense organs, sensory systems, and how the brain processes sensory input. As with the first edition, contributions from leading scholars from around the world will ensure The Senses offers a truly international portrait of sensory physiology. The set is the definitive reference on sensory neuroscience and provides the ultimate entry point into the review and original literature in Sensory Neuroscience enabling students and scientists to delve into the subject and deepen their knowledge.

This book is an overview of primary sensory maps of vertebrates, characterized by continuous and discrete properties. The eight primary sensory maps of vertebrates have unique features and use distinct molecular cues, cell cycle exit, and activity combinations during development, regeneration, and plasticity. As an introduction and overview, the book provides a short overview for all eight sensory senses and presents through evolution and gene regulatory networks, the molecular cues needed for sensory processing. Independent contributions are included for olfactory, vision, trigeminal, taste, vestibular, auditory, lateral line, and electroreception.

Hearing is a prerequisite for the evolution of language and thus the development of human societies. It is the only major sense whose evolution can be traced back to vertebrates, starting with sarcopterygians. The book explores the evolution of auditory development that has remained largely unexplored in contemporary theories of neurosensory brain evolution, including the telencephalon. It describes how sensory epithelia from the basilar papilla evolved in the ear and connected dedicated cochlear neurons to neuronal centers in the brain, and deals with how sound is converted through sound modulations into reliably decoded messages. The loss of hearing with age is expected to reach 2.6 billion people by 2050. As such, the book explains and reviews hearing loss at the molecular level to the behavioral level, and provides suggestions to manage the loss.

This book is dedicated to Victor Emmanuilovich Katsnelson on the occasion of his 75th birthday and celebrates his broad mathematical interests and contributions.Victor Emmanuilovich's mathematical career has been based mainly at the Kharkov University and the Weizmann Institute. However, it also included a one-year guest professorship at Leipzig University in 1991, which led to him establishing close research contacts with the Schur analysis group in Leipzig, a collaboration that still continues today. Reflecting these three periods in Victor Emmanuilovich's career, present and former colleagues have contributed to this book with research inspired by him and presentations on their joint work. Contributions include papers in function theory (Favorov-Golinskii, Friedland-Goldman-Yomdin, Kheifets-Yuditskii) , Schur analysis, moment problems and related topics (Boiko-Dubovoy, Dyukarev, Fritzsche-Kirstein-Madler), extension of linear operators and linear relations (Dijksma-Langer, Hassi-de Snoo, Hassi -Wietsma) and non-commutative analysis (Ball-Bolotnikov, Cho-Jorgensen).

About one half of the papers in this volume are based on lectures which were pre sented at a conference at Leipzig University in August 1994, which was dedicated to Vladimir Petrovich Potapov. He would have been eighty years old. These have been supplemented by: (1) Historical material, based on reminiscences of former colleagues, students and associates of V.P. Potapov. (2) Translations of a number of important papers (which serve to clarify the Potapov approach to problems of interpolation and extension, as well as a number of related problems and methods) and are relatively unknown in the West. (3) Two expository papers, which have been especially written for this volume. For purposes of discussion, it is convenient to group the technical papers in this volume into six categories. We will now run through them lightly, first listing the major theme, then in parentheses the authors of the relevant papers, followed by discussion. Some supplementary references are listed at the end; OT72 which appears frequently in this volume, refers to Volume 72 in the series Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. It was dedicated to V.P. Potapov. 1. Multiplicative decompositions (Yu.P. Ginzburg; M.S. Livsic, I.V. Mikhailova; V.I. Smirnov)."

This volume details the essential role of the spiral ganglion neurons. The volume elucidates and characterizes their development, their environment, their electrophysiological characteristics, their connectivity to their targets in the inner ear and the brain, and discusses the potential for their regeneration. A comprehensive review about the spiral ganglion neurons is important for researchers not only in the inner ear field but also in development, neuroscience, biophysics as well as neural networks researchers. The chapters are authored by leading researchers in the field.

This book is dedicated to Victor Emmanuilovich Katsnelson on the occasion of his 75th birthday and celebrates his broad mathematical interests and contributions.Victor Emmanuilovich's mathematical career has been based mainly at the Kharkov University and the Weizmann Institute. However, it also included a one-year guest professorship at Leipzig University in 1991, which led to him establishing close research contacts with the Schur analysis group in Leipzig, a collaboration that still continues today. Reflecting these three periods in Victor Emmanuilovich's career, present and former colleagues have contributed to this book with research inspired by him and presentations on their joint work. Contributions include papers in function theory (Favorov-Golinskii, Friedland-Goldman-Yomdin, Kheifets-Yuditskii) , Schur analysis, moment problems and related topics (Boiko-Dubovoy, Dyukarev, Fritzsche-Kirstein-Madler), extension of linear operators and linear relations (Dijksma-Langer, Hassi-de Snoo, Hassi -Wietsma) and non-commutative analysis (Ball-Bolotnikov, Cho-Jorgensen).

This volume details the essential role of the spiral ganglion neurons. The volume elucidates and characterizes their development, their environment, their electrophysiological characteristics, their connectivity to their targets in the inner ear and the brain, and discusses the potential for their regeneration. A comprehensive review about the spiral ganglion neurons is important for researchers not only in the inner ear field but also in development, neuroscience, biophysics as well as neural networks researchers. The chapters are authored by leading researchers in the field.

In diesem Monat feiern wir den 150. Geburtstag von SOPHUS LIE, einem der groessten Mathematiker des vorigen Jahrhunderts. Es ist daher sehr zu begrussen, dass der Teubner Verlag, einer langen Traditionslinie bei der Veroeffentlichung von LIES Werken folgend, in seine Reihe "TEUBNER-ARCHIV zur Mathematik" Arbeiten von SOPHUS LIE und seinen Zeitgenossen EDuARD STUDY und FRIEDRICH ENGEL aufgenommen hat. Ausgewahlt wurden Beitrage zur Theorie der Differentialinvarianten. Zum einen ist dies ein Gebiet, auf dem alle drei tatig gewesen sind und das als Ausgangspunkt grosser Liescher Ideen zur Anwendung gruppentheoretischer Methoden in der Analysis betrachtet werden kann, obwohl es nur einen Ausschnitt aus LIES Schaffen darstellt. Zum anderen vermitteln die hier vorgestellten Arbeiten durch ihren kritischen Stil und durch den Streit um unterschied liche mathematische Auffassungen interessante Einblicke in das mathematische Geschehen jener Zeit. Neben der Wurdigung dieser drei namhaften Mathematiker stellt der vorliegende Band den Ursprung der Lieschen Theorie, ihre weitere Entwicklung und spatere Auspragung dar. Wir danken dem Teubner-Verlag und insbesondere Herrn J. WEISS fur das freundliche Entgegenkommen und die gute Zusammenarbeit. Greifswald und Leipzig, Dezember 1992 GUENTER CZICHOWSKI BERND FRITZSCHE SOPHUS LIE OElgemalde von ERIK THEODOR WERENSKIOLD aus dem Jahre 1902; im Besitz der Universitat Oslo (Katalognummer 818) Inhalt S. Lie: UEber Gruppen von Transformationen, 1874. (Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Bd. 5 (1924),1-8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 S. Lie: UEber Differentialinvarianten, 1884. (Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Bd. 6 (1927), 95-l38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 . . . . . . . S. Lie: UEber die Gruppe der Bewegungen und ihre Differentialinvarianten, 1893. (Gesammelte Abhandlungen, Bd. 6 (1927), 376-383) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dieser Band des "TEUBNER-ARCHIVs zur Mathematik" enthalt klassische ma thematische Arbeiten, welche im Zeitraum von 1911 bis 1935 von GusTAV HER GLOTZ, ISSAI SCHUR, GEORG PICK, ROLF NEVANLINNA und HERMANN WEYL verfasst wurden und aus heutiger Sicht die Ursprunge einer mathematischen Richtung mar kieren, welche sich in den 80er Jahren an der Nahtstelle verschiedener mathemati scher Disziplinen herausbildete und nun unter der Bezeichnung "Schur-Analysis" Eingang in die mathematische Literatur gefunden hat. Hervorstechendes Merkmal der Schur-Analysis ist ihr algorithmischer Charakter, der bereits in IssAI ScHURS grundlegender Arbeit "Uber Potenzreihen, die im In nem des Einheitskreises beschrankt sind," welche 1917 und 1918 in zwei Teilen im "Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik" veroffentlicht wurde, pragnant zum Ausdruck kommt. Der dort kreierte tiefsinnige Algorithmus, welcher heute nun unter dem Terminus "Schur-Algorithmus" gefasst wird, beinhaltet alle haupt sachlichen Wesenszuge der Methode und trug wesentlich dazu bei, dass fur diese die Begriffsbildung "Schur-Analysis" gewahlt wurde. Es ist deshalb nur folgerichtig, dass die oben genannte Arbeit IssAI ScHuRs eine zentrale Stellung einnimmt."