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From Pigments to Perception:: Advances in Understanding the Visual Process

AUTHOR NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Advances in Understanding; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Valberg, Arne
PUBLISHER Plenum Publishing Corporation (06/30/1991)
PRODUCT TYPE Hardcover (Hardcover)

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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.
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ISBN-13: 9780306439056
ISBN-10: 0306439050
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 504
Carton Quantity: 8
Product Dimensions: 7.00 x 1.06 x 10.00 inches
Weight: 2.39 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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Science | Life Sciences - Zoology - General
Science | Neuroscience
Science | Life Sciences - Biophysics
Dewey Decimal: 152.14
Library of Congress Control Number: 91003529
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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.
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Editor: Valberg, Arne
1 INTRODUCTION.

VISION AND EXPERIENCE.

VISION AND NATURAL SCIENCE.

VISUAL ILLUSIONS.

2 OPTICS.

LIGHT.

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS.

IMAGING IN THE EYE.

3 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE EYE.

THE EYE IS NOT A CAMERA.

THE OPTIC MEDIA.

THE RETINA.

SIGNAL GENERATION.

4 SENSITIVITY AND RESPONSE.

PHOTOMETRY.

CONTRAST VISION.

VISION LOSS.

5 COLOR.

PHYSICS OF COLOR STIMULI

COLOR DIFFERENCES.

COLOR INDUCTION AND ADAPTATION.

6 COLOR VISION.

THE OPPONENT MODEL AND COLOR PERCEPTION.

7 NEURAL CORRELATES.

PSYCHOPHYSICS AND PARALLEL PATHWAYS.

8 BRAIN PROCESSES.

APPENDIX.

A Physiologically Based System for Color Measurement.

Tables and Diagrams.

GLOSSARY.

LITERATURE.

INDEX.

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