There is a plethora of professional journals devoted to vision research, and a number of
excellent books dealing with perception as well as the neural bases of vision. No single …

Visual neuroscience is the study of the way in which the-brain accomplishes sight, and this
book presents overviews of a range of topics in this area. The chapters are grouped into six …

VISUAL PERCEPTION BEGINS in the retina and occurs in two stages. Light entering the
cornea is projected onto the back of the eye, where it is converted into an electrical signal by …

The retina encodes the visual world. It transforms optical im ages into trains of nerve im
pulses, which are then conducted along the optic nerve to the brain. The brain interprets …

This book presents an interdisciplinary overview of the main facts and theories that guide
contemporary research on visual perception. While the chapters cover virtually all areas of …

Hartline's electrophysiological experiments, here reviewed, constitute the first steps in the
unitary analysis of the visual mechanisms of the invertebrate and vertebrate eye. They show …

A National Academy of Sciences colloquium entitled" Vision: From Photon to Perception"
was held at the Beckman Center of the Academy in Irvine, California, on May 20-22, 1995 …

UPON reaching his fiftieth birthday, Bertrand Russell is reputed to have said that it was
about time he decided what to do with his life. As I approached that milestone and decided …

A comprehensive review of contemporary research in the vision sciences, reflecting the
rapid advances of recent years. Visual science is the model system for neuroscience, its …

Presents the first comprehensive overview of the cognitive neuroscience of vision.
Beginning with the transformation of light images into neural images within the eye, the …