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Contrast sensitivity / edited by Robert Shapley and Dominic Man-Kit Lam.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Retina Research Foundation (U.S.). Proceedings of the Retina Research Foundation Symposium ; v. 5.Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1993.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 342 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262283465
  • 0262283468
  • 058533711X
  • 9780585337111
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contrast sensitivity.DDC classification:
  • 599/.01823 s 152.14 20
LOC classification:
  • QP479 .R469 1988 vol. 5eb RE79.C65
NLM classification:
  • W1
  • WW 105
Other classification:
  • 44.95
Online resources:
Partial contents:
1. Light and Dark Adaptation in Vertebrate Photoreceptors / Gordon L. Fain and M. Carter Cornwall -- 2. Fura-2 Imaging of Calcium in Monkey Solitary Cones / Peter R. MacLeish -- 3. Glutamatergic Synaptic Excitation of Retinal Amacrine and Ganglion Cells / David R. Copenhagen, Scott Mittman, W. Rowland Taylor and Don B. Dixon -- 4. You Cannot Inhibit a Good Receptor: GABA Receptor Diversity in the Vertebrate Retina / Malcolm M. Slaughter and Ning Tian -- 5. Can We Ever Understand How the Retina Communicates with the Brain? / Ken-ichi Naka and Hiroko M. Sakai -- 6. Modeling the Receptive Fields of Mammalian Retinal Ganglion Cells / J.B. Troy -- 7. Contrast Sensitivity and Light Adaptation in Photoreceptors or in the Retinal Network / Robert Shapley, Ehud Kaplan and Keith Purpura -- 8. The Origin of Parallel Visual Pathways / R.W. Rodiek, R.K. Brening and M. Watanabe -- 9. Helmerich Lecture: The World of Retinal Ganglion Cells / Christina Enroth-Cugell -- 10. Information Filtering in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus / Ehud Kaplan, Pratik Mukherjee and Robert Shapley -- 11. Roles of M and P Pathways / Peter Lennie -- 12. The Encoding of Cortical Contrast Gain Control / A.B. Bonds -- 13. Spatial Channels and Labeled Lines / Karen K. De Valois and Russell L. De Valois -- 14. Contrast Sensitivity: One Hundred Years of Clinical Measurement / J.G. Robson -- 15. The Role of Contrast in Reading: Normal and Low Vision / Gordon E. Legge -- 16. Assessing Human Retinal Function Beyond the Receptors / Robert F. Hess -- 17. Detection and Discrimination of Spatial Form in Patients with Eye or Visual Pathway Disorders / D. Regan -- Retina Research Foundation.
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Summary: Annotation The seventeen contributions present current research in visual signal processing, inthe retina and central pathways, and in the study of contrast sensitivity in humans.
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Annotation The seventeen contributions present current research in visual signal processing, inthe retina and central pathways, and in the study of contrast sensitivity in humans.

1. Light and Dark Adaptation in Vertebrate Photoreceptors / Gordon L. Fain and M. Carter Cornwall -- 2. Fura-2 Imaging of Calcium in Monkey Solitary Cones / Peter R. MacLeish -- 3. Glutamatergic Synaptic Excitation of Retinal Amacrine and Ganglion Cells / David R. Copenhagen, Scott Mittman, W. Rowland Taylor and Don B. Dixon -- 4. You Cannot Inhibit a Good Receptor: GABA Receptor Diversity in the Vertebrate Retina / Malcolm M. Slaughter and Ning Tian -- 5. Can We Ever Understand How the Retina Communicates with the Brain? / Ken-ichi Naka and Hiroko M. Sakai -- 6. Modeling the Receptive Fields of Mammalian Retinal Ganglion Cells / J.B. Troy -- 7. Contrast Sensitivity and Light Adaptation in Photoreceptors or in the Retinal Network / Robert Shapley, Ehud Kaplan and Keith Purpura -- 8. The Origin of Parallel Visual Pathways / R.W. Rodiek, R.K. Brening and M. Watanabe -- 9. Helmerich Lecture: The World of Retinal Ganglion Cells / Christina Enroth-Cugell -- 10. Information Filtering in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus / Ehud Kaplan, Pratik Mukherjee and Robert Shapley -- 11. Roles of M and P Pathways / Peter Lennie -- 12. The Encoding of Cortical Contrast Gain Control / A.B. Bonds -- 13. Spatial Channels and Labeled Lines / Karen K. De Valois and Russell L. De Valois -- 14. Contrast Sensitivity: One Hundred Years of Clinical Measurement / J.G. Robson -- 15. The Role of Contrast in Reading: Normal and Low Vision / Gordon E. Legge -- 16. Assessing Human Retinal Function Beyond the Receptors / Robert F. Hess -- 17. Detection and Discrimination of Spatial Form in Patients with Eye or Visual Pathway Disorders / D. Regan -- Retina Research Foundation.

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