The Primate Visual System (eBook, PDF)

A Comparative Approach
Redaktion: Kremers, Jan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Many recent developments in the field in recording, staining, genetic and stimulation techniques, in vivo, and in vitro have significantly increased the amount of available data on the primate visual system. Written with contributions from key neurobiologists in the field, The Primate Visual System will provide the reader with the latest developments, examining the structure, function and evolution of the primate visual system. The book takes a comparative approach as a basis for studying the physiological properties of primate vision and examines the phylogenetic relationship between the visual systems of different primate species. Taken from a neurobiologist's perspective this book provides a unique approach to the study of primate vision as a basis for further study into the human visual system. Altogether an important overview of the structure, function and evolution of the primate visual system from a neurobiologist's perspective, written specifically for higher level undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in neuroscience, physiology, optics/ visual science, as well as a valuable read to researchers new to the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470868102
• Artikelnr.: 37299879

Autorenporträt

Jan Kremers is the editor of The Primate Visual System: A Comparative Approach, published by Wiley.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1: THE EVOLUTIONARY AND ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF PRIMATE VISION (Robert D. Martin
Callum F. Ross). CHAPTER 2: COMPARATIVE ASPECTS OF VISUAL SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT (Barbara L. Finlay
Luiz Carlos de Lima Silveira
Andreas Reichenbach). CHAPTER 3: THE GENETICS AND EVOLUTION OF PRIMATE VISUAL PIGMENTS (David Hunt
Gerald H Jacobs
James Bowmaker). CHAPTER 4: THE ECOLOGY OF THE PRIMATE EYE: RETINAL SAMPLING AND COLOR VISION (Daniel Osorio
Misha Vorobyev
Gerald Jacobs). CHAPTER 5: COMPARATIVE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PRIMATE RETINA (Luiz Carlos de Lima Silveira
Ulrike Grunert
Jan Kremers
Barry B. Lee
Paul R. Martin). CHAPTER 6: THE LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS (Jan Kremers
Jon H Kaas
Paul Martin
Samual Solomon). CHAPTER 7: EXTRARETINAL INPUTS AND FEEDBACK MECHANISMS TO THE LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS (LGN) (Vivian Casagrande
David Royal
Gyula Sary). CHAPTER 8: VISUAL FUNCTIONS OF THE RETINORECIPIENT NUCLEI IN THE MIDBRAIN
PRETECTUM AND VENTRAL THALAMUS OF PRIMATES (Michael Ibbotson
Bogdan Dreher). CHAPTER 9: THE EVOLUTION OF VISUAL CORTEX IN PRIMATES (Jon H Kaas). CHAPTER 10: THE PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR VISUAL MOTION PERCEPTION AND VISUALLY GUIDED EYE MOVEMENTS (Uwe Ilg
Jan Churan
Stefan Schumann). CHAPTER 11: PSYCHOPHYSICAL CORRELATES OF IDENTIFIED PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES (Annette Werner
Joel Pokorny
Vivianne Smith
Arne Valberg
Jan Kremers
Mark Greenlee).

Rezensionen

"...a treasure trove of information on visual systems..." ( The Quarterly Review of Biology , March 2006)