A Vision of the Brain
The Visible World and the Cortex
Published on 5. May 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
380 pages
978-0-632-03054-5 (ISBN)
Description
This new benchmark publication comes from one of the world's foremost researchers on vision and the brain. The cerebal cortex is the most complicated piece of matter in the known universe, and is responsible for all the higher behavioural functions which help define us as human. A Vision of the Brain is the most sustained attempt made so far to explain how the cortex works both with specific reference to vision and generally. At a level accessible to those beginning studies within neuroscience, this exciting book explores the unfolding of our understanding, as a detective story, of how the visual cortex works, which in turn gives us a vision of how the brain works as a whole. Illustrated throughout in two colours, and examining both normal and abnormal functions, this book will be of major interest to neurologists, psychologists, ophthalmologists and neuroscientists.
Reviews / Votes
".. Professor Semir Zeki has pioneered in the analysis of parallel processing in the visual system: how the different components of our visual world - the color, movement, and form of a visual scene - are analyzed in different regions of the brain. In this delightful and highly readable book, Professor Zeki gives a personal accounting of his voyage of discovery and does so in the context of the major intellectual and philosophical issues that have confronted the study of vision historically. This book is ideal for the beginning student because it is so accessible, but it will also be read for profit by scholars in philosophy, psychology and in the neural sciences. It is at once a great read and an introduction to the modern neurological underpinnings of visual perception."--Eric R Kandel, Columbia University, New YorkMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
118
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
1066 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-632-03054-5 (9780632030545)
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Content
The Retina And The Visual Image Functional Specialization In Human Cerebral Cortex The Representation Of The Retina In The Primary Visual Cortex Colour In The Cerebral Cortex The Evidence Against A Colour Centre In The Cortex The Concept Of The Duality Of The Visual Process The Extent Of The Visual Receptive Cortex The Spell Of Cortical Architecture Hierarchies In The Visual System A Motion-Blind Patient The Multiple Visual Areas Of The Cerebral Cortex The Basic Anatomy Of The Visual Areas Parallelism In The Visual Cortex Functional Specialization In The Visual Cortex Functional Specialization In Human Visual Cortex The Collapse Of The Old Concepts The Mapping Of Visual Functions In The Brain The Corpus Callosum As A Guide To Functional Specialization In The Visual Cortex Functional Segregation In Cortical Areas Feeding The Specialized Visual Areas The P And M Pathways And The 'What And Where' Doctrine The Modularity Of The Brain The Plasticity Of The Brain Colour Vision And The Brain The Cerebral Cortex As A Categorizer The Retinex Theory And The Organization Of The Colour Pathways In The Brain The Physiology Of The Colour Pathways Some Specific Visual Disturbances Of Cerebral Origin A Tense Relationship A Theory Of Multi-Stage Integration In The Visual Cortex The Disintegration Of Cerebral Integration The Anatomy Of Integration Further Unsolved Problems Of Integration Consciousness And Knowledge Through Vision