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Year: 2003
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ISBN 10: 0470868090

ISBN 13: 9780470868096

Author: Jan Kremers

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.

Table of contents: 

1 The Evolutionary and Ecological Context of Primate Vision
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The phylogenetic background to primate vision
1.3 Comparative analyses of cranial dimensions
1.4 Evolution of color vision
References
2 Comparative Aspects of Visual System Development
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Fundamental organization and development of the retina
2.3 Neurogenesis
2.4 Topology and specification of cell-type subcategories
2.5 Lamination; synaptogenesis; axon outgrowth; and cell death
2.6 Emmetropization
2.7 Scaling the eye
2.8 Producing the nocturnal eye
2.9 Mechanisms of the genesis of the fovea centralis in primate retina
2.10 Summary
References
3 The Genetics and Evolution of Primate Visual Pigments
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Structure of visual pigments
3.3 Visual pigment genes in primates
3.4 Origin of duplication in Old World primates
3.5 L and M gene variation in Old World primates
3.6 Color vision in platyrrhines and prosimians
3.7 Evolution of trichromacy
3.8 Summary and conclusions
References
4 The Ecology of the Primate Eye: Retinal Sampling and Color Vision
4.1 Introduction: sampling and retinal specialization
4.2 Spatial sampling: signals, noise and image statistics
4.3 Color
4.4 Nocturnality and the origins of primate vision
References
5 Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Primate Retina
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Outer retina
5.3 Bipolar cell circuitry
5.4 Parallel pathways
5.5 Ganglion cell morphology
5.6 Ganglion cell physiology – information processing and transfer
5.7 Conclusion
References
6 The Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The anatomical organization of the LGN
6.3 The classification of LGN cells
6.4 Basic receptive field properties of LGN cells
6.5 Nonlinear response properties of LGN cells
References
7 Extraretinal Inputs and Feedback Mechanisms to the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN)
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Cell types and basic circuitry of the LGN
7.3 Response properties: A brief overview
7.4 Organization of extraretinal inputs
7.5 Concluding remarks and remaining questions
References
8 Visual Functions of the Retinorecipient Nuclei in the Midbrain, Pretectum, and Ventral Thalamus of
8.1 Superior colliculus
8.2 Pretectum
8.3 Accessory optic system
8.4 Pregeniculate complex
References
9 The Evolution of Visual Cortex in Primates
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Features of visual cortex organisation that early primates retained from non-primate ancestors
9.3 Features of visual cortex in early primates
9.4 Visual cortex of tarsiers
9.5 Anthropoid primates
9.6 Hominid visual cortex
9.7 Conclusions
References
10 The Physiological Basis for Visual Motion Perception and Visually Guided Eye Movements
10.1 Abstract
10.2 Processing of visual motion in the primate brain
10.3 Action which depends on motion processing: smooth pursuit eye movements
10.4 Comparing motion processing underlying perception and smooth pursuit eye movements
10.5 Initiation of smooth pursuit eye movements
10.6 Cancelation of self-induced retinal image motion during execution of SPEM
10.7 Smooth pursuit eye movements and motor learning
10.8 Pursuit-related activity and its frame of reference
10.9 Contributions of area MST to motion perception
10.10 Motion processing for actions other than eye movements
10.11 Conclusions
References
11 Psychophysical Correlates of Identified Physiological Processes
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Psychophysical correlates of retino-geniculate pathways
11.3 Modeling low-level color vision processing
11.4 Central visual pathways
11.5 The cortical representation of motion
11.6 Conclusion

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