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Format: 1 online resource (733 p.)

ISBN: 1-281-02339-6 , 9786611023393 , 0-08-052532-6

Content: Written by experts on the forefront of investigations of brain function, vision, and perception, the material presented is of an unparalleled scientific quality, and shows that analyses of enormous breadth and sophistication are required to probe the structure and function of brain regions. The articles are highly persuasive in showing what can be achieved by carrying out careful and imaginative experiments. The Cat Primary Visual Cortex should emerge as essential reading for all those interested in cerebral cortical processing of visual signals or researching or working in any field o

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front Cover; The Cat Primary Visual Cortex; Copyright Page; Contents; PREFACE; Chapter 1. The Concept of Cat Primary Visual Cortex; Prologue; Milestones in the Development of the Concept of Cat Primary Visual Cortex; Connections; Composition of Area 17; Comparison of the Architectonics of Areas 17 and 18 and Identification of Borders; Visual Maps in Areas 17 and 18; Circuitry and Signal Processing in Areas 17 and 18; Visually Guided Behavior; Synthesis; Recent Challenges to the Primacy of Areas 17 and 18; Epilogue , Chapter 2. Optical Imaging of Functional Architecture in Cat Primary Visual CortexIntroduction; Methodological Aspects of Optical Imaging; Optical Imaging of Functional Maps in Cat Visual Cortex; Relationships Between Columnar Systems; Comparison with the Functional Architecture in Other Species; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 3. 2-Deoxyglucose Architecture of Cat Primary Visual Cortex; Introduction; Orientation Domains; Ocular Dominance Domains; Spatial Frequency Domains; Development and Experience-Dependent Changes of Cortical Maps; Advantages and Disadvantages of the 2-DG Technique; Outlook , Chapter 4. Functional Mapping in The Cat Primary Visual Cortex Using High Magnetic FieldsIntroduction; Limitations of Current Techniques, or Why We Need Another Mapping Technique; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Functional MRI of the Cat Primary Visual Cortex; Conclusions; Chapter 5. Relationship of LGN Afferents and Cortical Efferents to Cytochrome Oxidase Blobs; Parallel Processing in the Mammalian Visual System; Organization of CO Staining in Cat Primary Visual Cortex; Geniculate Inputs to the CO Blobs; Molecular Markers for Other Blob/Interblob Inputs; Outputs of the CO Blobs , Projections to Area 19Comparisons with Primates; Conclusions; Chapter 6. Influmence of Topography and Ocular Dominace on The Functional Organization of Callosal Connections in Cat Striate Cortex; Introduction; The Vertical Meridian Rule; Callosal Fibers Interlink Cortical Sites That are in Retinotopic, Rather Than Anatomical, Correspondence; Interhemispheric Correlated Activity Guides Callosal Development; Summary and Concluding Remarks; Chapter 7. Essential and Sustaining LGN Inputs to Cat Primary Visual Cortex; Introduction; The Reversible Inactivation Technique; Two Circuits in Area 17 , Area 18: More Integrative Than Area 17Functional Architecture of Visual Cortex; Chapter 8. Integration of Thalamic Input to Cat Primary Visual Cortex; Introduction; Simple Receptive Fields; Numerical Aspects of the Geniculocortical Projection; Feedforward (Thalamic) Connections and Simple Cell Responses; Intrinsic Connections and Simple-Cell Responses; Conclusions; Chapter 9. The Emergence of Direction Selectivity in Cat Primary Visual Cortex; Overview; Directional Tuning: The Basics; Computational Requirements for Direction Selectivity; Biological Instantiation of Computational Principles , Origins of Cortical Timings: The Lagged/Nonlagged Cell Model , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-12-552104-9

Language: English