From Pigments to Perception

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Biophysics and Psychophysics of Photoreceptors.
• Visual Pigments and Colour Vision in Primates.
• The Cost of Trichromaticity for Spatial Vision.
• Variability in Cone Populations and Implications.
• Discussion: Biophysics and Psychophysics of Photoreceptor.
• Transition from Photopic to Scotopic Light Assessments and Possible Underlying Processes.
• Dual Rod Pathways.
• Wavelength-Discrimination with Only Rods and Blue Cones.
• Density of Bipolar Cells in the Macaque Monkey Retina.
• Discussion: Rod Vision.
• Parvocellular and Magnocellular Pathways and Psychophysics.
• Which Cells Code for Color?.
• Receptive Field Structure of P and M Cells in the Monkey Retina.
• On the Relation between Cellular Sensitivity and Psychophysical Detection.
• P and M Pathway Specialization in the Macaque.
• The Color-Opponent and Broad-band Channels of the Primate Visual System.
• Discussion: P- and M-Pathways I.
• Temporal Characteristics of Colour Vision: VEP and Psychophysical Measurements.
• The Contribution of Colour to Motion.
• Functional Classification of Parallel Pathways.
• The Responses of Macaque Retinal Ganglion Cells to Complex Temporal Waveforms.
• Remote Surrounds and the Sensitivity of Primate P-Cells.
• On Neurophysiological Correlates of Simultaneous Colour and Brightness Contrast as Demonstrated in P-LGN-Cells of the Macaque.
• Development of Infant Contrast Sensitivity and Acuity for Coloured Patterns.
• Psychophysical Evidence of two Gradients of Neural Sampling in Peripheral Vision.
• Discussion: P- and M-Pathways II.
• Visual Evoked Potentials.
• On the Nature of Visual Evoked Potentials, Unit Responses and Psychophysics.
• Localization of the Electromagnetic Sources of the Pattern Onset Response in Man.
• Discussion: Evoked Potentials.
• Cortical Processing and Psychophysical Measurement.
• Probing the Primate Visual Cortex: Pathways and Perspectives.
• Lateral Interactions in Visual Cortex.
• The Perceptual Significance of Cortical Organization.
• Orientation and Spatial Frequency Selectivity: Properties and Modular Organization.
• Orientation and Color Columns in Monkey Striate Cortex.
• Discussion: Cortical Processing.
• Psychophysical Studies and Post-Receptoral Processes.
• Visual Photometry: Relating Psychophysics to some Aspects of Neurophysiology.
• Sensory and Perceptual Processes in Seeing Brightness and Lightness.
• Assimilation Versus Contrast.
• On Achromatic Colors.
• Color Opponency from Eye to Brain.
• Chromatic Mechanisms beyond Linear Opponency.
• Discussion: Psychophysics and Post-Receptoral Processes I.
• Adaptation Mechanisms in Color and Brightness.
• Testing the Contrast Explanation of Color Constancy.
• Adaptation and Color Discrimination.
• Studies on Colour Constancy in Man Using a “Checkerboard - Mondrian”.
• Discussion: Post-Receptoral Processes II.
• Models, Neural Processes and Psychophysics.
• Origin of Perceptually Measured Phase Shifts in the Visual System.
• Psychophysical Correlates of Parvo Channel Function.
• On the Physiological Basis of Higher Colour Metrics.
• Neural Decoding.
• Effects of Phase Shifts between Cone Inputs on Responses of Chromatically Opponent Cells.
• Different Neural Codes for Spatial Frequency and Contrast.
• Displacement Estimation, Stereo Matching and ‘Object’ Recognition: A Computer Simulation Approach Working with Real World Imagery.
• Scaling and Thresholds of Color and Light Described by an Opponent Model of Color Vision Based on Psychophysical Data.
• Discussion: Models and Neural Nets.
• General Discussion.
• Participants.