The Psychobiology of Sensory Coding

Preface. 1. An Orientation. Section 1: Fundamental Materials 2. The Nature of Physical Stimuli 3. The Anatomy of Receptors and the Sensory Pathways 4. Sensory Transduction Section 2: Sensory Coding 5. An Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Sensory Coding 6. The Coding of Sensory Magnitude 7. The Neural Coding of Space and Time 8. Feature Detection - Neurophysiology and Psychophysics 9. The Neural Coding of Sensory Quality - Vision 10. The Neural Coding of Sensory Quality - Audition 11. The Neural Coding of Sensory Quality - The Other Senses and a Summary 12. Epilogue - Emerging Principles of Sensory Coding. Suggestions for Further Reading. Bibliography. Index.