E-raamat: The Primate Visual System

With chapters contributed by a multidisciplinary group of leading researchers, The Primate Visual System provides a much-needed, comprehensive overview of the visual system in primates. It covers a range of topics concerning various primates, including humans, and examines processing from the eye to neural codes for action, and from basic perception to memory.

The whole of the primate visual system is not of so much interest here, but only the parts of it that seem specialized in primates, and thus differ notably from analogous structures in other taxa. Contributors in various neurosciences, optometry, physiology, psychology, cognitive science, and other disciplines, and from industrialized and nonindustrialized countries around the world, consider such topics as the neuronal mechanisms of visual perception and action in the visual system of primates, species differences and specializations, the functional and anatomical adaptiveness of the mature system, and the development of the visual cortex. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.

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.