THE SENSES:A COMPREHENSIVE

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THE SENSES:A COMPREHENSIVE

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Volume 1VISION I

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Dr Richard H. MaslandHarvard University, Boston, MA, USA

Dr Tom AlbrightSalk Institute, San Diego, CA, USA

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Dr Allan I. BasbaumUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

Dr Akimichi KanekoKeio University, Tokyo, Japan

Dr Gordon M. ShepherdYale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Dr Gerald WestheimerUniversity of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

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Contents

Contents of All Volumes vii

Contributors to All Volumes xiii

Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2 xxxiii

Vision I

1.01 The Visual System and Its Stimuli 1G Westheimer, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

1.02 Evolution of Vertebrate Eyes 9R D Fernald, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

1.03 Vision in Birds 25G R Martin, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UKD Osorio, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

1.04 Vision in Fish 53K Bowmaker, University College London, London, UKE R Loew, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

1.05 Phototransduction in Microvillar Photoreceptors of Drosophila and Other Invertebrates 77R C Hardie and M Postma, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

1.06 Central Processing of Visual Information in Insects 131H G Krapp, Imperial College London, London, UKM Wicklein, University College London, London, UK

1.07 Color in Invertebrate Vision 205M Vorobyev, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

1.08 Visual Ecology 211W Cronin, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

1.09 Mammalian Photopigments 247J Carroll, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USAG H Jacobs, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

1.10 Phototransduction in Rods and Cones 269D-G Luo, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USAV Kefalov, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USAK-W Yau, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

1.11 Mammalian Rod Pathways 303E Strettoi, Neuroscience Institute, Pisa, Italy

1.12 Decomposing a Cone’s Output (Parallel Processing) 313H Wassle, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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1.13 Contributions of Horizontal Cells 341R G Smith, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

1.14 Contributions of Bipolar Cells to Ganglion Cell Receptive Fields 351M A Freed, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

1.15 Amacrine Cells 361M Wilson, University of California, Davis, CA, USAD I Vaney, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

1.16 The P, M and K Streams of the Primate Visual System: What Do They Do for Vision? 369E Kaplan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NewYork, NY, USA

1.17 Neural Mechanisms of Natural Scene Perception 383J L Gallant, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Berkeley, CA, USAR J Prenger, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

1.18 Seeing in the Dark: Retinal Processing and Absolute Visual Threshold 393F Rieke, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

1.19 Direction-Selective Cells 413T Euler and S E Hausselt, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany

1.20 Melanopsin Cells 423I Provencio, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

1.21 Blue-ON Cells 433B B Lee, SUNY College of Optometry, New York, NY, USA

1.22 Mosaics, Tiling and Coverage by Retinal Neurons 439B E Reese, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

1.23 Circuit Functions of Gap Junctions in the Mammalian Retina 457S C Massey, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, USA

1.24 Plasticity of Retinal Circuitry 473N Tian, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USAD Copenhagen, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

1.25 Retinal Ganglion Cell Types and Their Central Projections 491D M Berson, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

1.26 Pupillary Control Pathways 521D H McDougal and P D R Gamlin, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

1.27 The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus 537G E Pickard and P J Sollars, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

1.28 The Visual Thalamus 557S M Sherman, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

1.29 Functional Maps in Visual Cortex: Topographic, Modular, and Columnar Organizations 577D J Felleman, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, USA

1.30 Organization of Human Visual Cortex 595R Rajimehr and R Tootell, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA

Index to Volumes 1 and 2 615

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Contents of All Volumes

Volume 1 Vision I

1.01 The Visual System and Its Stimuli1.02 Evolution of Vertebrate Eyes1.03 Vision in Birds1.04 Vision in Fish1.05 Phototransduction in Microvillar Photoreceptors of Drosophila and Other Invertebrates1.06 Central Processing of Visual Information in Insects1.07 Color in Invertebrate Vision1.08 Visual Ecology1.09 Mammalian Photopigments1.10 Phototransduction in Rods and Cones1.11 Mammalian Rod Pathways1.12 Decomposing a Cone’s Output (Parallel Processing)1.13 Contributions of Horizontal Cells1.14 Contributions of Bipolar Cells to Ganglion Cell Receptive Fields1.15 Amacrine Cells1.16 The P, M and K Streams of the Primate Visual System: What Do They Do for Vision?1.17 Neural Mechanisms of Natural Scene Perception1.18 Seeing in the Dark: Retinal Processing and Absolute Visual Threshold1.19 Direction-Selective Cells1.20 Melanopsin Cells1.21 Blue-ON Cells1.22 Mosaics, Tiling and Coverage by Retinal Neurons1.23 Circuit Functions of Gap Junctions in the Mammalian Retina1.24 Plasticity of Retinal Circuitry1.25 Retinal Ganglion Cell Types and Their Central Projections1.26 Pupillary Control Pathways1.27 The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus1.28 The Visual Thalamus1.29 Functional Maps in Visual Cortex: Topographic, Modular, and Columnar Organizations1.30 Organization of Human Visual Cortex

Index to Volumes 1 and 2

Volume 2 Vision II

2.01 Temporal Coherence: A Versatile Code for the Definition of Relations2.02 High-Level Visual Processing2.03 Luminance Sensitivity and Contrast Detection2.04 Lightness Perception and Filling-In2.05 Nocturnal Vision2.06 Spectral Sensitivity2.07 Chromatic Detection and Discrimination

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2.08 Color Appearance2.09 Motion Detection Mechanisms2.10 Cortical Processing of Visual Motion2.11 Cortical Mechanisms for the Integration of Visual Motion2.12 Optic Flow2.13 Biological Motion Perception2.14 Transparency and Occlusion2.15 Three-Dimensional Shape: Cortical Mechanisms of Shape Extraction2.16 Visual Search2.17 Object-Based Attention2.18 Visual Attention and Saccadic Eye Movements2.19 Saliency2.20 Perceptual Learning2.21 Face Recognition2.22 The VOR: A Model for Visual-Motor Plasticity

Index to Volumes 1 and 2

Volume 3 Audition

3.01 Phylogeny and Evolution of Ciliated Mechanoreceptor Cells3.02 Insect Ears3.03 High-Frequency Hearing3.04 Sensory Ecology of Hearing3.05 Genetics of Mechanoreceptor Evolution and Development3.06 Molecular Anatomy of Receptor Cells and Organ of Corti3.07 Genetic Hearing Loss3.08 Homeostasis of the Inner Ear3.09 Meniere’s Disease3.10 Mechano-Acoustical Transformations3.11 Evolution of the Middle Ear and Inner Ear in Vertebrates3.12 Biophysics of Chordotonal Organs3.13 Interconnections between the Ears in Nonmammalian Vertebrates3.14 Underwater Hearing3.15 Otoacoustic Emissions3.16 Hair Cell Transduction and Adaptation: Physiology and Molecular Mechanisms3.17 Amplification and Feedback in Invertebrates3.18 Tinnitus3.19 Prestin3.20 Cochlear Receptor Potentials3.21 Manifestations of Cochlear Events in the Auditory Brain-stem Response and

Its Clinical Applications3.22 Afferent Synaptic Mechanisms3.23 Perspectives on Auditory Neuropathy: Disorders of Inner Hair Cell, Auditory Nerve, and

Their Synapse3.24 Efferent System3.25 Overview of Treatment of Hearing Loss3.26 Cochlear Implants3.27 Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids: A Perspective3.28 Sensory Regeneration in the Vertebrate Ear3.29 Treatment of Hearing Loss: Viral Transfection3.30 Vertebrate Auditory Pathways3.31 Invertebrate Auditory Pathways3.32 Biophysical Specializations of Neurons that Encode Timing3.33 Central Synapses that Preserve Auditory Timing3.34 Acoustic Startle in Mice and Rats3.35 Encoding of Interaural Timing for Binaural Hearing

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3.36 Encoding of Interaural Level Differences for Sound Localization3.37 Monaural Sound Localization Using Spectral Cues3.38 The Bat Cochlea3.39 Auditory Processing in the Bat Medial Superior Olive3.40 Brain Mechanisms of Sound Localization in Barn Owls3.41 Sound Localization in Insects3.42 Inputs to the Inferior Colliculus3.43 The Nuclei of the Lateral Lemniscus: Two Functional Systems3.44 Auditory Map Plasticity in Juvenile and Adult Owls3.45 The Functional Neuroanatomy of the Auditory Cortex3.46 Sound Localization and the Auditory Cortex3.47 Pitch Perception3.48 Perception of Speech Sounds3.49 Auditory Scene Analysis3.50 Human Auditory Development3.51 Sleep and Memory Consolidation in Audition

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Volume 4 Olfaction & Taste

4.01 Phylogeny of Chemical Sensitivity4.02 Chemistry of Gustatory Stimuli4.03 Insect Gustatory Systems4.04 Aquatic Animal Models in the Study of Chemoreception4.05 Ultrastructure of Taste Buds4.06 Development of the Taste System4.07 The Sweet Taste of Childhood4.08 Taste Analgesia in Newborns4.09 Taste Receptors4.10 Taste Transduction4.11 Gustatory Pathways in Fish and Mammals4.12 Neurotransmitters in the Taste Pathway4.13 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Study of Taste4.14 Amiloride-Sensitive Ion Channels4.15 Central Neural Processing of Taste Information4.16 Neural Ensembles in Taste Coding4.17 A Perspective on Chemosensory Quality Coding4.18 Oral Chemesthesis and Taste4.19 Genetics and Evolution of Taste4.20 Propylthiouracil (PROP) Taste4.21 Salt Taste4.22 Behavioral Analysis of Taste Function in Rodent Models4.23 Flavor Aversion Learning4.24 Roles of Taste in Feeding and Reward4.25 Dopamine Release by Sucrose4.26 The Representation of Flavor in the Brain4.27 The Aging Gustatory System4.28 Signal Transduction in the Olfactory Receptor Cell4.29 Olfactory Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Ion Channels4.30 Structure, Expression, and Function of Olfactory Receptors4.31 Regulation of Expression of Odorant Receptor Genes4.32 Genomics of Odor Receptors in Zebrafish4.33 Genomics of Invertebrate Olfaction4.34 Regeneration of the Olfactory Epithelium4.35 Regeneration in the Olfactory Bulb4.36 Architecture of the Olfactory Bulb

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4.37 Physiology of the Main Olfactory Bulb4.38 Olfactory Cortex4.39 Modeling of Olfactory Processing4.40 Understanding Olfactory Coding via an Analysis of Odorant-Evoked Glomerular

Response Maps4.41 Insect Olfaction4.42 Odor Plumes and Animal Orientation4.43 Accessory Olfactory System4.44 Genomics of Vomeronasal Receptors4.45 Human Olfactory Psychophysics4.46 Disorders of Taste and Smell

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Volume 5 Pain

5.01 The Adequate Stimulus5.02 Pain Theories5.03 Anatomy of Nociceptors5.04 Molecular Biology of the Nociceptor/Transduction5.05 Zoster-Associated Pain and Nociceptors5.06 Ectopic Generators5.07 Sodium Channels5.08 Physiology of Nociceptors5.09 Itch5.10 Thermal Sensation (Cold and Heat) through Thermosensitive TRP Channel Activation5.11 The Development of Nociceptive Systems5.12 Appropriate/Inappropriate Developed ‘‘Pain’’ Paths5.13 Pain Control: A Child-Centered Approach5.14 Assaying Pain-Related Genes: Preclinical and Clinical Correlates5.15 Evolutionary Aspects of Pain5.16 Redheads and Pain5.17 Autonomic Nervous System and Pain5.18 Sympathetic Blocks for Pain5.19 Sprouting in Dorsal Root Ganglia5.20 Vagal Afferent Neurons and Pain5.21 Sex, Gender, and Pain5.22 Neurotrophins and Pain5.23 Morphological and Neurochemical Organization of the Spinal Dorsal Horn5.24 Spinal Cord Physiology of Nociception5.25 What is a Wide-Dynamic-Range Cell?5.26 Spinal Cord Mechanisms of Hyperalgesia and Allodynia5.27 Glycine Receptors5.28 Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury5.29 Long-Term Potentiation in Pain Pathways5.30 Immune System, Pain and Analgesia5.31 Mechanisms of Glial Activation after Nerve Injury5.32 Trigeminal Mechanisms of Nociception: Peripheral and Brainstem Organization5.33 Migraine – A Disorder Involving Trigeminal Brainstem Mechanisms5.34 Tooth Pain5.35 Ascending Pathways: Anatomy and Physiology5.36 Dorsal Columns and Visceral Pain5.37 Visceral Pain5.38 Irritable Bowel Syndrome5.39 Pain in Childbirth5.40 Urothelium as a Pain Organ5.41 The Brainstem and Nociceptive Modulation

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5.42 Emotional and Behavioral Significance of the Pain Signal and the Role of the MidbrainPeriaqueductal Gray (PAG)

5.43 The Thalamus and Nociceptive Processing5.44 Psychophysics of Sensations Evoked by Stimulation of the Human Central Nervous System5.45 Nociceptive Processing in the Cerebral Cortex5.46 Phantom Limb Pain5.47 Human Insular Recording and Stimulation5.48 The Rostral Agranular Insular Cortex5.49 Descending Control Mechanisms5.50 Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Controls (DNIC)5.51 Fibromyalgia5.52 Pain Perception – Nociception during Sleep5.53 Pharmacological Modulation of Pain5.54 Forebrain Opiates5.55 Neuropathic Pain: Basic Mechanisms (Animal)5.56 Animal Models and Neuropathic Pain5.57 Neuropathic Pain: Clinical5.58 Neurogenic Inflammation in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)5.59 Complex Regional Pain Syndromes5.60 Poststroke Pain5.61 Psychophysics of Pain5.62 Consciousness and Pain5.63 Assessing Pain in Animals5.64 Psychological Modulation of Pain5.65 The Placebo Effect5.66 Hypnotic Analgesia

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Volume 6 Somatosensation

6.01 Cutaneous Mechanisms of Tactile Perception: Morphological and ChemicalOrganization of the Innervation to the Skin

6.02 Merkel Cells6.03 Physiological Responses of Sensory Afferents in Glabrous and

Hairy Skin of Humans and Monkeys6.04 Coding of Object Shape and Texture6.05 Tactile Sensory Control of Object Manipulation in Humans6.06 Physiological Characteristics of Second-Order Somatosensory Circuits in Spinal Cord and

Brainstem6.07 The Somatosensory Thalamus and Associated Pathways6.08 Somatosensory Areas of the Cerebral Cortex: Architectonic Characteristics and Modular Organization6.09 Development of the Somatosensory Cortex and Patterning of Afferent Projections6.10 The Evolution of Parietal Areas Involved in Hand Use in Primates6.11 Role of Primary Somatosensory Cortex in Perceptual Touch Detection and Discrimination6.12 Dorsal and Ventral Streams in the Sense of Touch6.13 Plasticity of Somatosensory Function during Learning, Disease and Injury6.14 Intrinsic Signal Imaging of Somatosensory Function in Nonhuman Primates6.15 Twenty-Five Years of Multielectrode Recordings in the Somatosensory System: It is All about Dynamics6.16 Specialized Somatosensory Systems6.17 Somatosensation in Invertebrates6.18 Visual Deprivation Effects on Somatosensory and Visual Systems: Behavioral and

Cortical Changes6.19 Cross-Modal and Multisensory Interactions between Vision and Touch

Index

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Contributors to All Volumes

B W AcheUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

P J AlbrechtAlbany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

J M AlexanderUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA

T S AliotoUniversity of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

M AlvarezUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico

B L AndersonUniversity of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

D E AngelakiWashington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

V AnseloniUniversity of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, MD, USA

A V ApkarianNorthwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

K M ArmstrongStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

K BowmakerUniversity College London, London, UK

A A BachmanovMonell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

C A BagleyJohns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

R BandlerUniversity of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

L A BarlowUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

R BaronChristian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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L M BartoshukUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

K I BaumannUniversity of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

G K BeauchampMonell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

O BehrendHumboldt-University, Berlin, Germany

K W BeiselCreighton University, Omaha, NE, USA

F BenedettiUniversity of Turin Medical School, Turin, Italy

S BensmaiaThe Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

D A BereiterUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

J BerganStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

I L BernsteinUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

D M BersonBrown University, Providence, RI, USA

T BertaUniversity of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

K BielefeldtUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

L A BirderUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

F BirkleinUniversity of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

J D BohbotVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

R T BornHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

J D Boughter Jr.University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

S BradesiUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

R M BradleyUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

A S BregmanMcGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

K H BrittenUniversity of California, Davis, CA, USA

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M-C BroilletUniversity of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

S M BromleyUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School,Camden, NJ, USA

R M BurgerLehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA

H BurtonWashington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

M R ByersUniversity of Washington, Seattle WA, USA

A BuschgesUniversity of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

S W CaddenUniversity of Dundee, Dundee, UK

J N CampbellJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

J CaprioLouisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

C E CarrUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

J CarrollMedical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

E CarstensUniversity of California, Davis, CA, USA

M J CaterinaJohns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

B Cerf-DucastelSan Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA

F CerveroMcGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

L M ChenVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

J Christensen-DalsgaardUniversity of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

T A ClelandCornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

T J CoderreMcGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

D CopenhagenUniversity of California San Francisco, CA, USA

R M CostanzoVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

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E CoveyUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

A D CraigBarrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA

W CroninUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

C Darian-SmithStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

R Davis-TaberGlobal Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Abbott Park, IL, USA

J W DawsonCarleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Y De KoninckCentre de recherche Universite Laval Robert-Giffard, Quebec, QC, Canada

V de LafuenteUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico

I DecosterdUniversity of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

P H DelanoUniversidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

C D DerbyGeorgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA

S W G DerbyshireUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

J A DeSimoneVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

J DeSimoneVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

M DevorHebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

R A DiCaprioOhio University, Athens, OH, USA

E DisbrowUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

J O DostrovskyUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

R L DotyUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

A DrayAstraZeneca Research and Development, Montreal, PQ, Canada

R DubnerUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

G E DuBoisThe Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA, USA

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B DuchaineUniversity College London, London, UK

V B DuffyUniversity of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

J D DurrantUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

P L Edds-WaltonParmly Hearing Institute, Chicago, IL, USA

E EliavUMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School, Newark, NJ, USA

M EnnisUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

R S ErzurumluUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

R T Eskew Jr.Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

T EulerMax-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany

A FaurionNeurobiologie Sensorielle, NOPA-NBS, INRA, Jouy en Josas, France

R R FayLoyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

D J FellemanUniversity of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, USA

A S FengUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

K M FennUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

R D FernaldStanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

J FerraroUniversity of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

R B FillingimUniversity of Florida College of Dentistry, Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science Gainesville, FL, USA

T E FingerUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

N B FinnerupAarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

M F FitzgeraldUniversity College London, London, UK

J R FlanaganQueen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

H FlorCentral Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

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A FontaniniBrandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

D H FosterUniversity of Manchester, Manchester, UK

M E FrankUniversity of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA

M A FreedUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

A S FrenchDalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

R FriedmanVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

B FritzschCreighton University, Omaha, NE, USA

M FrotINSERM U879, Bron France

T FukushimaThe University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

D N FurnessKeele University, Keele, UK

G GaliziaUniversitat Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

J L GallantHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA

P D R GamlinUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

E P GardnerDepartment of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

G F GebhartUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

C D GilbertThe Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

D Rodriguez GilYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

J I GlendinningBarnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

P J GoadsbyUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

P GocheeUniversity of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

M S GoldUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, USA

A W GoodwinUniversity of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic, Australia

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J GottliebColumbia University, New York, NY, USA

R H GracelyUniversity of Michigan Health System, VAMC, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

C A GreerYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

M Gridi-PappUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

M GrimCharles University, Praha, Czech Republic

S E GrossmanBrandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

B GrotheLudwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

M C GopfertUniversity of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

T A HackettVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

C M HackneyUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

A HajnalMilton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

Z HalataUniversity of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

R HallworthCreighton University, Omaha, NE, USA

R C HardieUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

K M HargreavesUniversity of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA

I A HarringtonAugustana College, Rock Island, IL, USA

J P HarrisUniversity of California, San Diego, CA, USA

G J HathwayUniversity College London, London, UK

S E HausseltMax-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany

A HayarUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

J E HayesBrown University, Providence, RI, USA

D HeCreighton University, Omaha, NE, USA

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B HedwigUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

H E HeffnerUniversity of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA

R S HeffnerUniversity of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA

M M HeinricherOregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

A HernandezUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico

A HirshUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

J R HoltUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA

P HonoreGlobal Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Abbott Park, IL, USA

S S HsiaoThe Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

J W HuUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

J IglesiasCuban Center for Neuroscience, Habana, Cuba

F ImamuraYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

S L IngramWashington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA

J IsnardLyon I University and INSERM U879, Bron, France

G H JacobsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

W JanigPhysiologisches Institut, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, Germany

W JanigChristian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

L JasminNeurosurgery and Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA

T S JensenAarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

R S JohanssonUmea University, Umea, Sweden

S J St. JohnRollins College, Winter Park, FL, USA

B A JohnsonUniversity of California, Irvine, CA, USA

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B JohnsonUC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

J I JohnsonMichigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

J H KaasVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

T KamigakiThe University of Tokyo School ofMedicine,Tokyo, Japan

E KaplanThe Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NewYork, NY, USA

H KasaharaThe University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

D B KatzBrandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

B J B KeatsLouisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

K KeayUniversity of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

V KefalovWashington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

D R KettenWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA

R M KhanUC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

M C KillionEtymotic Research Ltd., Elk Grove Village, IL, USA

J C KinnamonUniversity of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

S C KinnamonColorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

K R KluenderUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA

E KnudsenStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

T KobayakawaNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

H KomatsuNational Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan

M KonishiCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

H G KrappImperial College London, London, UK

B KrekelbergRutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA

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R F KrimmUniversity of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA

L KrubitzerUniversity of California, Davis, CA, USA

T KurahashiOsaka University, Osaka, Japan

M KosslJohann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

S LaceyEmory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

R LadherRIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan

A K LalwaniNew York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

G J LavigneUniversite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

H C LawsonJohns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

D Le BarsINSERM U-713, Paris, France

B B LeeSUNY College of Optometry, New York, NY, USA

S LeeKorea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea

T Leinders-ZufallUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

A LelliUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA

L LemusUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico

F A LenzJohns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

M LeonUniversity of California, Irvine, CA, USA

A R LightUniversity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

D LimaUniversidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

C LinsterCornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

W LiThe Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA

P-M LledoPasteur Institute, Paris, France

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E R LoewCornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

R LunaUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico

D-G LuoJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

V LyallVirginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

H MachelskaCharite – Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

E A MacphersonUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

S F MaierUniversity of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

H MaijaHelsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

P B ManisThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

G A ManleyTechnische Universitat Munchen, Garching, Germany

I MarcUniversite Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada

D MargoliashUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

R F MargolskeeMount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

G R MartinUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

S C MasseyUniversity of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, USA

F MauguiereLyon I University and INSERM U879, Bron, France

M MaxMount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

B J MayThe Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

E A MayerUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

C H McCoolUniversity of California, Davis, CA, USA

D H McDougalUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

P A McGrathThe University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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E M McLachlanPrince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Randwick, NSW, Australia

D G McLarenUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

L M MendellState University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA

J A MennellaMonell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

S MenseInstitut fur Anatomie und Zellbiologie, Universitat Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

W MeyerhofGerman Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany

R A MeyerJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

H J MichalewskiUniversity of California, Irvine, CA, USA

J C MiddlebrooksUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

E D MilliganUniversity of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

Y MiyashitaThe University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

J S MogilMcGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

T MooreStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

T MoserUniversity of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

V NacherUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico

P M NarinsUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

J NgaiUniversity of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

M A L NicolelisDuke University, Durham, NC, USA

R NorgrenMilton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

P T OharaUniversity of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

S OharaJohns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

K OkuraTokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

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D OliverUniversitat Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

G A OrbanK.U. Leuven Medical School, Leuven, Belgium

D OsorioUniversity of Sussex, Brighton, UK

M H OssipovUniversity of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

C C PackMcGill University School of Medicine, Montreal, PQ, Canada

G E PickardColorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

R J PittsVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

G S PollackMcGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

A N PopperUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

F PorrecaUniversity of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

C V PortforsWashington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA

M PostmaUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

R J PrengerUniversity of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

T M PreussEmory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

D D PriceUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

I ProvencioUniversity of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

A C PucheUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

S PuriaStanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

H-X QiVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

P RainvilleUniversite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

S N RajaJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

R RajimehrMassachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA

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R L ReedUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

B E ReeseUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

L RelaYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

K RenUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

B A RevillBrandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

J ReynoldsThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA, USA

A Ribeiro-da-SilvaMcGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

F L RiceAlbany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

F RiekeUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

M RingkampJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

H L RittnerCharite – Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

D RobertUniversity of Bristol, Bristol, UK

W M RobertsUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

M E RobinsonUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

L RoblesUniversidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

V RodrıguezCuban Center for Neuroscience, Habana, Cuba

I RodriguezUniversity of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

A W RoeVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

E T RollsUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK

R RomoUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico

E W RubelUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

I RussellUniversity of Sussex, Brighton, UK

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M A RutherfordUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

K SaitoUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

H SakanoUniversity of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

A N SaltWashington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

J SandkuhlerMedical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

K SathianEmory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

R J SchaferStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

S S SchiffmanDuke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

M SchmelzUniversity of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

J SchouenborgLund University, Lund, Sweden

B A SchulteMedical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

I SchwetzMedical University, Graz, Austria

J E SchwobTufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

V E ScottGlobal Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Abbott Park, IL, USA

R V ShannonHouse Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA

A SharmaColumbia University, New York, NY, USA

L T SharpeUniversity College London, London, UK

S M ShermanThe University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

T ShimuraOsaka University, Osaka, Japan

J SiegelNorthwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

C T SimonsGlobal Research and Development Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA

W SingerMax Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany

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D V SmithThe University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, TN, USA

M T SmithJohn Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, MD, USA

R G SmithUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

J B Snow Jr.University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

D J SnyderYale University, New Haven, CT, USA

N SobelUC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

P J SollarsColorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

A C SpectorThe Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

H StaeckerUniversity of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

A StarrUniversity of California, Irvine, CA, USA

R StaudUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

E A StaufferUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA

G C SteckerUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

C R SteeleStanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

C SteinCharite – Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

L J SteinMonell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

A StockmanUniversity College London, London, UK

R StormsVeterans Administration Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA

E StrettoiNeuroscience Institute, Pisa, Italy

H TakeuchiOsaka University, Osaka, Japan

E ThomsonDuke University, Durham, NC, USA

N TianYale University, New Haven, CT, USA

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D J TollinUniversity of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO, USA

M TominagaNational Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Japan

R TootellMassachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA

K TouharaThe University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan

S P TraversThe Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

R D TreedeJohannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

R D TreedeRuprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

N F TrojeQueen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

L O TrussellOregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

A TsuboiUniversity of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

M J Valdes-SosaCuban Center for Neuroscience, Habana, Cuba

D I VaneyThe University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

M VaterUniversitat Potsdam, Golm, Germany

M VorobyevUniversity of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

E T WaltersUniversity of Texas at Houston, Medical School, Houston, TX, USA

M E WarcholWashington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

E WarrantUniversity of Lund, Lund, Sweden

W H WarrenBrown University, Providence, RI, USA

L R WatkinsUniversity of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO,USA

L A WernerUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

U WesselmannThe Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

G WestheimerUniversity of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

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K N WestlundUniversity of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

H E WheatUniversity of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic, Australia

M C WhiteheadUniversity of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

M C WhitmanYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

M WickleinUniversity College London, London, UK

M C WiestDuke University, Durham, NC, USA

J C WillerINSERM U-731, Paris, France

M A WillisCase Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

W D Willis JrUniversity of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

J F WillottUniversity of South Florida, Tampa, FL

D A WilsonUniversity of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

M WilsonUniversity of California, Davis, CA, USA

J M WolfeBrigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA

J N WoodUniversity College London, London, UK

H WassleMax-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

J E YackCarleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

T YamamotoOsaka University, Osaka, Japan

R YangUniversity of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

K-W YauJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

R P YezierskiComprehensive Center for Pain Research and The McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

W A YostLoyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

J M YoungFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA

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G YovelTel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

A ZainosUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico

H U ZeilhoferUniversity of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

D M ZeitlerNew York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

F G ZengUniversity of California, Irvine, CA, USA

J-K ZubietaUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

F ZufallUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

L J ZwiebelVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

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Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2

We have tried in these two volumes to cover most of the major topics in visual neuroscience, starting from

molecular fundamentals and progressing to perception and cognition. We are fortunate to begin with an essay

by Gerald Westheimer, one of the founders of the modern field and a scholar of great depth. The first volume

continues with chapters on visual ecology and the mechanics of vision in animals other than mammals –

comparative subjects that should inform thinking about all aspects of vision in any species. Our colleagues in

those areas have outdone themselves and we are grateful for their thorough and entertaining contributions.The chapters on the mammalian retina are, in general, shorter and more focused. In selecting the authors we

have sought the leaders and innovators in each specialized area and we are fortunate that so many of them are

represented here. We have urged them to provide continuity in their chapters and believe that they succeed in

creating a deep and coherent portrait of the circuitry and fundamental functions of the retina. The final

chapters of this volume leave the retina and enter the brain. They ask: where does the output of the retina go

next, and what happens to it in the early stages of central vision? Here, we begin to encounter some of the

limitations of current methods, notably that studies of visual coding have lagged behind the gains made using

molecular and imaging techniques. A striking example is our inability to specify the different visual coding

patterns transmitted to the brain by the approximately 12 structural types of retinal ganglion cells. Current

approaches to the coding problem are illustrated in several chapters; but the problem is far from solved and

represents a major task for the next generation.The second volume moves beyond brain structures and mechanisms involved in light detection, retinal

processing, and low-level analysis of visual image features, to address central representations associated with

the perceptual interpretation of visual images. In recent years, visual neuroscience has made great strides in

understanding how salient visual attributes are represented in the cerebral cortex. Recent advances are

reflected here in an extended series of chapters written by leaders in their respective subfields, which

collectively explore the cortical representations of luminance, color, motion, and shape. Consistent with one

of the major recent trends in the field, these chapters do a fine job of integrating data and comparing

perspectives gained via visual psychophysics, neurophysiology, and functional brain imaging.In addition to representing and abstracting key properties of visual attributes, such as color and motion, vital

processing stages in the visual cortex include (i) extracting the spatial layout of surfaces in the visual scene

and (ii) recognizing objects. The former falls under what has come to be called ‘mid-level visual processing‘ and

recent progress is reflected here in a chapter on the topic of surface depth ordering by cues for transparency and

occlusion. Object recognition, by contrast, has long been regarded a facet of ‘high-level visual processing’. We

have included an extended chapter that canvasses this captivating subfield with timely discussions of visual

memory and perceptual constancies. One particularly intriguing and well-studied aspect of high-level vision is

face recognition, and we have included a chapter that delves into this topic in some detail.Among the most important discoveries in central visual processing over the past couple of decades is the

degree to which neuronal representations of visual attributes are modifiable by shifts of attention and by

experience. The field of visual attention has been particularly prolific and we have accordingly included a

series of detailed chapters that address varieties of attention and their neurophysiological manifestations in the

visual cortex. Perceptual learning – an experience-dependent change in the way visual features are represented –

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is an emerging area of study, and we have included a chapter that nicely interweaves evidence regardingperceptual effects, neuronal response properties, and underlying mechanisms.

Finally, one of the main functions of visual processing is to influence movements of the body. Sensorimotorintegration and plasticity are broad areas of study, which deserve their own volume, but we have includedherein an article on a topic that is both representative of the field and one of its most deeply plowed zones – thevestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR).

The breadth and depth of topics addressed by the chapters in these two new volumes on the visual systemattest to the fact that this field has developed greatly since the time Donald Hebb observed that ‘‘we knowvirtually nothing about what goes on between the arrival of an excitation at a sensory projection area and itslater departure from the motor area of the cortex.’’ In recent years, much of this development has been drivenby technology – for example, the use of ever-better techniques for cell labeling and tracing of neuronalconnections, and the refinement of procedures for recording neuronal activity in behaving animals. A long-awaited bridge has also been extended between the fields of experimental psychology and physiology, whichhas lead in part to a powerful union of visual psychophysics and cellular neurophysiology.All indications arethat the next edition of these volumes will contain chapters that build on still newer technical and conceptualdevelopments, such as the large-scale application of molecular genetic tools to probe visual functions at thesystems level, and the use of imaging techniques that enable monitoring of activity simultaneously from largepopulations of neurons. Indeed, we have much to look forward to.

Richard H. Masland and Tom Albright

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