The Visually Responsive Neuron

Part 1 Peripheral processing: the electrical responses of the trout photoreceptors to brief and prolonged illumination; light sensitivity, adaptation and saturation in mammalian rods; responses of isolated cat retinal ganglion cells to injected currents during development; macaque ganglion cells and spatal vision; the neurophysiological correlates of ccolour induction, ccolour and brightness contrast. Part 2: sensory integration in superior colliculus; determinants of axonal and dendritic structure in the superior colliculus; functional architecture of rodent superior colliculus - relevance of multiple output channgels; the visually responsive neuron and beyond - multisensory integration in cat and monkey; sensory integration in the deep layers of superior colliculus; early and late flash-induced field responses correspond on On and OFF receptive field components in hamster superior colliculus. Part 3 Functional and anatomical organization of visual projections: functional organization of the projections from the rabbit's superior colliculus to the lateral posterior nucleus; multiple visual areas in the posterior parietal cortex of primates; corticotectal relationships - direct and "indirect" corticotectal pathways; abnormal visual experience and spatio-temporal properties of area; neurones in the cat; visual behaviour following lesion of phasic W-fibres in the cat's optic tract; visuotopic organization of corticocortical connections in the visual system; disparity coding in the cat - a comparison between areas 17/18 and area 19. Part 4 Development and placticity: cortical convergence of On and Off pathways and functional adaptation of receptive field organization in cat area 17; temporal covariance of postsynaptic membrane potential and synaptic input role in synaptic efficiency n visual cortex; potentiation of the extrageniculo-striate pathway - a possible role in visual pattern discrimination; long-term changes in visual mechanisms following differential stimulation of colour and luminance channels during development; the development of visual corticcal properties depends on visuo-proprioceptive congruence; reorganization processes in the visual cortex also depend on visual experience in the adult cat; extraretinal modulation of geniculate neuronal activity by conditioning; the properties of the long-term potentiation (LTP) in the superior colliculus; the nature of synaptic plasticity in the visual cortex of kittens; an electrophysiological analysis in vitro. Part contents.