Research Catalog

Title

Sensory processing in the mammalian brain : neural substrates and experimental strategies / edited by Jennifer S. Lund.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lund, Jennifer S.
• Werner, Gerhard, 1921-
• University of Pittsburgh. Center for Neuroscience.

Description

xii, 368 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Senses and sensation > Congresses
• Cerebral cortex > Congresses
• Afferent pathways > Congresses
• Sensory receptors > Congresses
• Brain > physiology
• Sensation > physiology
• Sensory Receptor Cells > physiology
• Afferent pathways
• Cerebral cortex
• Senses and sensation
• Sensory receptors
• Gehirn
• Sinnesphysiologie
• Säugetiere
• Kongress
• Zintuigen
• Neurofysiologie
• Hersenschors
• Sens et sensations > Congrès
• Cortex cérébral > Congrès
• Voies afférentes > Congrès
• Récepteurs sensoriels > Congrès
• Mammifères > Physiologie > Congrès

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Based on a conference entitled Organizing principles of sensory processing, held in the fall of 1986 at the University of Pittsburgh in honor of Gerhard Werner and sponsored by the Center for Neuroscience.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

pt. 1. Smell and taste. 1. Information processing in the olfactory system / Donald A. Wilson and Michael Leon ; 2. Analysis of mammalian peripheral taste systems / James C. Boudreau -- pt. 2. Touch and pain. 3. Touching the outside world : representation of motion and direction within primary somatosensory cortex / Esther P. Gardner, Heikki A. Hamalainen, Claude I. Palmer, and Susan Warren ; 4. The vibrissa/barrel cortex as a model of sensory information processing / Daniel J. Simons, George E. Carvell, and Peter W. Land ; 5. Dy[n]amic processes governing the somatosensory cortical response to natural stimulation / Barry L. Whitsel, Oleg V. Favorov, Mark Tommerdahl, Mathew E. Diamond, Sharon L. Juliano, and Douglas G. Kelly ; 6. Multielectrode exploration of somatosensory cortex function in the awake monkey / Albert T. Kulics and Lawrence J. Cauller ; 7. Neural mechanisms of pain discrimination / William D. Willis Jr. -- pt. 3. Hearing. 8. Statistical modeling of auditory neuron discharges / Chiyeko Tsuchitani and Don H. Johnson ; 9. The neural coding of simple and complex sounds in the auditory cortex / Dennis P. Phillips -- pt. 4. Vision. 10. Mapping strategies of monkey primary visual cortex / Jennifer S. Lund ; 11. Neural responses serving stereopsis in the visual cortex of the alert macaque monkey : position-disparity and image-correlation / Gian F. Poggio ; 12. Topography of visual function as shown with voltage-sensitive dyes / Gary G. Blasdel ; 13. Coding the movements and position of the head in space / David L. Tomko ; 14. The coding of information about eye movements in the superior colliculus of rhesus monkeys : saccade direction, amplitude, and velocity / David L. Sparks -- pt. 5. Development and repair of sensory systems. 15. Neural transplantation as an approach to studying sensory systems / Raymond D. Lund -- pt. 6. Models of neural sensory processing. 16. Neural mechanisms of pattern recognition / Herbert J. Reitboeck ; 17. Network model for computing surface curvature from shaded images / Sidney R. Lehky and Terrence J. Sejnowski ; 18. Knowledge and natural selection : five decades on the path to naturalizing epistemology / Gerhard Werner.

ISBN

• 0195045548
• 9780195045543

LCCN

88005374

OCLC

• ocm17677574
• 17677574
• SCSB-1907930

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library