Neuronal Coding of Perceptual Systems: Proceedings of the International School of Biophysics Casamicciola Napoli Italy ,12-17 October 1998

by Backhaus, W.

• ISBN13: 9789810241643
• ISBN10: 981024164X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

Neuronal coding of information coming from external and internal environments and transducted by sensory receptors constitutes a basic biophysical problem. After the coding phase, such information orients organism responses, shaping complex behavioural patterns. The characteristics of both neurons (interneurons with re-entering connections, latency times, filter bandwidth with respect to input signals, logic operations on multiple convergent signals) and neuron nets (reverberating nets, feedback/feed-forward connections, oscillations due to endogenous activity patterns) are important for coding mechanisms. Neuronal coding is implied also in the higher phases of information processing linked to consciousness, when neuronal activity patterns are related to perceptual mental representations.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Introductory Lecture
Some Logical Features of Feature Integration	p. 3
Neuronal Coding
Vision: Neuronal Coding of Colour, Space, Form, Motion, and Polarised Light Perception
Temporal Neuronal Colour Coding and Fluctuations, Behaviour and Evolution	p. 25
Human Colour Vision: 1. Colour Mixture and Retino--Geniculate Processing	p. 79
Is Color Space Curved? A Common Model for Color--Normal and Color-Deficient Observers	p. 102
Color Vision in Goldfish and Its Neural Basis	p. 106
Colour in Insect Eyes: Optical Mechanisms, Spectral Characteristics and Regionalization	p. 119
A Physiological Model of Dark- and Light-Adapted Photoreceptors of the Honeybee	p. 134
Spatial and Form Vision: Early Processing	p. 142
Compartmental Simulation of Transient and Sustained Signal Formation In Retinal Amacrine Cells	p. 157
Cortical Orientation Map Development from Natural Images: The Role of Cortical Response Amplification in V1	p. 161
Lack of Interocular Transfer in the Crab	p. 169
EEG Correlates of Voluntarily Provoked and of Unconscious Impairments of Visual Perception	p. 173
Neural Coding in Area MT/V5 and Satellites: From Antagonistic Surround to the Extraction of 3D Structure from Motion	p. 188
Desert Ant Navigation: Steering by Polarized Skylight	p. 203
Vision in the Ultraviolet Range in Carassius auratus (Ostariophysi, Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae): An Electrophysiological Study	p. 211
Responses to UV Light in the Inner Retina of the Turtle	p. 215
Hearing and Touch: Neuronal Coding of Auditory and Mechano Perception
How nature Engineers Ears	p. 221
Evolutionary Aspects of Mechanoreception: From Ciliates to Man	p. 237
Proprioceptive Sensory Coding of 2-D Movement Trajectories in Humans. A Microneurographic Study	p. 249
Proprioceptive Cues as a Basis for Body Representation and as a Binding Factor with Extrapersonal Space	p. 254
Neuronal Coding and Movement Discrimination in Proprioception	p. 263
Stimulus Separation in Ensembles of Muscle Afferents	p. 268
Sensory Coding of 2D Drawings in Humans. A Computerised Audio-Visual Demonstration	p. 272
Taste and Smell: Neuronal Coding of Chemical Perception
Interpretations Concerning Neural Coding Derived from Experiments on Smell (and Taste)	p. 277
Coding in Peripheral Taste Nerves of Rhesus, Macaca mulatta, Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes and Common Marmoset, Callithrix jacchus jacchus	p. 287
Olfactory Information Processing in Insects: Processing at the Periphery	p. 292
Neuronal Coding of Temperature, Electro, Magneto, and Pain Perception
The Biophysics of Temperature Sensitivity, Temperature Perception and Behaviour-Induced Temperature Changes in Insects	p. 301
Signal Analysis in the Communication of a Weakly Electric Fish, Eigenmannia virescens (Gymnotiformes)	p. 314
Magnetic Information Used in the Orientation of Birds and Other Animals	p. 334
Pain Sensitivity, Opioid Systems, and Magnetic Fields	p. 352
Neuronal Network Simulations
Rate and Temporal Coding with a Neural Oscillator	p. 373
An Investigation of 'Pictures of Thought' Properties of Pulsating, Short Circuit Networks in Theory and Simulation	p. 377
Grey Level Transformation Aspects for Weightless Neural Networks	p. 392
A 'Neural' Net That Can Be Seen with the Naked Eye	p. 397
Internal Representations
Neuronal Coding, Qualia, and Sensations (Consciousness)
Phenomenal Consciousness So-Called	p. 405
Quantum Theory, Information Dynamics and the Relationship Between Mind and Matter	p. 423
Measurement and Simulation of Colour Sensations	p. 445
Human Colour Vision: 2. Colour Appearance and Cortical Transformations	p. 475
Color Perception in Goldfish: Color Constancy and Color Categorization	p. 498
Spatial and Form Vision: Later Processing	p. 511
Kinetic Contours as a Motion Construct of the Brain: From Single Cells to the Description of the Kinetic Occipital (KO) Region in Humans	p. 529
Aspects of Coding of Sound and Other Mechanical Stimuli	p. 540
Directional Hearing and Sound Generation in Field Crickets: Two Matched Filters	p. 546
Remarks to the Theory of Chemosensitive Coding	p. 562
Olfactory Information Processing in Insects: Processing in the Antennal Lobes	p. 569
How Miniature Brains Solve Complex Tasks	p. 578
Magnetic Compass Orientation as a Basic Element of Navigation in Birds	p. 586
EEG Correlates of Mild Impairments of Higher Cortical Functions	p. 602
The Frontal Lobes--Cognitive-Mnestic Coding and Organizational Properties	p. 616
From Neuronal Coding to Consciousness	p. 627
Participants
List of participants	p. 643
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