Schiller, Peter H. (Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, MIT)

Vision and the Visual System Schiller, Peter H. (Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, MIT)

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: PrefaceAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Methods to Assess Visual Perception and Brain FunctionChapter 2: Basic Wiring of the Visual SystemChapter 3: The RetinaChapter 4: The Lateral Geniculate NucleusChapter 5: The Striate CortexChapter 6: Extrastriate CortexChapter 7: The ON and OFF ChannelsChapter 8: The Midget and Parasol SystemsChapter 9: Color VisionChapter 10: AdaptationChapter 11: Motion Perception Chapter 12: Depth PerceptionChapter 13: Pattern PerceptionChapter 14: Visual IllusionsChapter 15: Eye-Movement Control Chapter 16: Visual Prosthetics ReferencesName IndexSubject IndexBiographical Note: Peter H. Schiller is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Edward J. Tehovnik worked at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than twenty years studying vision and oculomotor control in behaving monkeys. He now works as CNPq Investigator for The Brain Institute at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, Brazil. Publisher Marketing: Vision and the Visual System offers students, teachers, and researchers a rigorous, yet accessible account of how the brain analyzes the visual scene. Schiller and Tehovnik describe key aspects of visual perception while explaining the relationship between eye movements and the neural structures in the brain, which play a central role in how we process visual information. The book discusses various brain areas involved in processing information, focusing on the evolutionary origins and mechanics behind the several parallel pathways that compose the visual system. Later chapters explain how the nervous system processes the perception of color, motion, depth, and patterns. A variety of illusions are on display in Chapter 14, where the authors provide detailed explanations that deconstruct how the visual system operates to create them. The volume concludes with a discussion of recent attempts to build visual prosthetic devices for blind individuals, of which there are more than 40 million in the world. Vision and the Visual System is based on Professor Schiller's more than 40 years of experience teaching vision courses at MIT, and is tailored especially for college undergraduates and graduate students interested in visual perception and the operations of the visual system.