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THE PRIMATE VISUAL SYSTEM


Edited by
Jon H. Kaas, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Christine E. Collins, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Department of Psychology,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Methods & New Frontiers in Neuroscience Series
Series Editors
Sidney A. Simon, Ph.D.
Miguel A.L. Nicolelis, M.D.. Ph.D.

CRC Press, 2004

FROM THE BACK COVER

The last 20 years of research have been marked by exceptional progress in
understanding the organization and functions of the primate visual system.
This understanding has been based on the wide application of traditional
and newly emerging methods for identifying the functionally significant
subdivisions of the system, their interconnections, the response
properties of their neurons, and the population responses to stimulus events.

While primates vary greatly in morphology and behavioral adaptations, all
primates share certain features of the visual system. Although there are
several books on vision in the market, until now no book has provided a
comprehensive overview of the primate visual system. This book synthesizes
the current knowledge on the anatomical and functional organization of the
primate visual system and proposes new directions for research.
Contributed by a multidisciplinary group of leading researchers, chapters
consider a range of topics concerning various primates, including humans,
and cover processing from the eye to neural codes for action, and from
basic perception to memory.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1
Parallel Visual Pathways in a Dynamic System    1
Vivien A. Casagrande and David W. Royal

Chapter 2
Comparative Study of the Primate Retina    29
Luiz Carlos de Lima Silveira

Chapter 3
The Pulvinar Complex    53
Iwona Stepniewska

Chapter 4
Normal and Abnormal Development of the Neuronal Response
Properties in Primate Visual Cortex    81
Yuzo M. Chino, Hua Bi, and Bin Zhang

Chapter 5
Modular Complexity of Area V2 in the Macaque Monkey    109
Anna W. Roe

Chapter 6
Early Visual Areas: Vl, V2, V3, DM, DL, and MT    139
Jon H. Kaas

Chapter 7
Plasticity of Visual Cortex in Adult Primates    161
Christine E. Collins and Jon H. Kaas

Chapter 8
Hierarchies of Cortical Areas    181
Jean Bullier

Chapter 9
Visual Processing in the Macaque Frontal Eye Field          205
Jeffrey D. Schall, Kirk G. Thompson, Narcisse P. Bichot, Aditya Murthy,
and Takashi R. Sato

Chapter 10
Specializations of the Human Visual System: The Monkey
Model Meets Human Reality          231
Todd M. Preuss

Chapter 11
Maps of the Visual Field in the Cerebral Cortex of Primates:
Functional Organization and Significance    261
Marcello G. P. Rosa and Rowan Tweedale

Chapter 12
Face Expertise and Category Specialization in the Human
Occipitotemporal Cortex    289
Isabel Gauthier

Chapter 13
Motion Processing in Human Visual Cortex    311
Randolph Blake, Robert Sekuler, and Emily Grossman

Chapter 14
The Functional Organization of Monkey Inferotemporal
Cortex     345
Manabu Tanifuji

Chapter 15
Comparative Studies of Pyramidal Neurons in Visual Cortex
of Monkeys    365
Guy N. Elston

Chapter 16
Feedback Connections: Splitting the Arrow    387
Kathleen S. Rockland

Index    407

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ISBN: 0849312434 (hardcover) $139.95 USD

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