A vision of the brain /

By: Zeki, SemirMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; Boston : Blackwell Scientific Publications, c1993 (1994 printing)Description: xi, 366 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN: 0632030542; 9780632030545Subject(s): Visual cortex | Visual pathways | Vision | Visual Cortex -- physiology | Visual Perception -- physiologyDDC classification: 612.825 .Z48 1993 LOC classification: QP382.O22 | Z45 1993
Contents:
1. The retina and the visual image -- 2. Functional specialization in human cerebral cortex -- 3. The representation of the retina in the primary visual cortex -- 4. Colour in the cerebral cortex -- 5. The evidence against a colour centre in the cortex -- 6. The concept of the duality of the visual process -- 7. The extent of the visual receptive cortex -- 8. The spell of cortical architecture -- 9. Hierarchies in the visual system -- 10. A motion-blind patient -- 11. The multiple visual areas of the cerebral cortex -- 12. The basic anatomy of the visual areas -- 13. Parallelism in the visual cortex -- 14. Functional specialization in the visual cortex -- 15. Functional specialization in human visual cortex -- 16. The collapse of the old concepts -- 17. The mapping of visual functions in the brain -- 18. The corpus callosum as a guide to functional specialization in the visual cortex -- 19. Functional segregation in cortical areas feeding the specialized visual areas.
20. The P and M pathways and the 'what and where' doctrine -- 21. The modularity of the brain -- 22. The plasticity of the brain -- 23. Colour vision and the brain -- 24. The cerebral cortex as a categorizer -- 25. The retinex theory and the organization of the colour pathways in the brain -- 26. The physiology of the colour pathways -- 27. Some specific visual disturbances of cerebral origin -- 28. A tense relationship -- 29. A theory of multi-stage integration in the visual cortex -- 30. The disintegration of cerebral integration -- 31. The anatomy of integration -- 32. Further unsolved problems of integration -- 33. Consciousness and knowledge through vision.
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"Rerinted with corrections 1994"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The retina and the visual image -- 2. Functional specialization in human cerebral cortex -- 3. The representation of the retina in the primary visual cortex -- 4. Colour in the cerebral cortex -- 5. The evidence against a colour centre in the cortex -- 6. The concept of the duality of the visual process -- 7. The extent of the visual receptive cortex -- 8. The spell of cortical architecture -- 9. Hierarchies in the visual system -- 10. A motion-blind patient -- 11. The multiple visual areas of the cerebral cortex -- 12. The basic anatomy of the visual areas -- 13. Parallelism in the visual cortex -- 14. Functional specialization in the visual cortex -- 15. Functional specialization in human visual cortex -- 16. The collapse of the old concepts -- 17. The mapping of visual functions in the brain -- 18. The corpus callosum as a guide to functional specialization in the visual cortex -- 19. Functional segregation in cortical areas feeding the specialized visual areas.

20. The P and M pathways and the 'what and where' doctrine -- 21. The modularity of the brain -- 22. The plasticity of the brain -- 23. Colour vision and the brain -- 24. The cerebral cortex as a categorizer -- 25. The retinex theory and the organization of the colour pathways in the brain -- 26. The physiology of the colour pathways -- 27. Some specific visual disturbances of cerebral origin -- 28. A tense relationship -- 29. A theory of multi-stage integration in the visual cortex -- 30. The disintegration of cerebral integration -- 31. The anatomy of integration -- 32. Further unsolved problems of integration -- 33. Consciousness and knowledge through vision.