Vision : the approach of biophysics and neurosciences : proceedings of the International School of Biophysics, Casamicciola, Napoli, Italy, 11-16 October 1999 / edited by C. Musio.

At head of title: Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Introductory lecture. The optics of animal eyes / M.F. Land -- Molecular level. Rhodopsin-like proteins: The universal and probably unique proteins for vision / P. Gualtieri -- Photoreception before men / P. Gualtieri -- The molecular design of a visual cascade: Molecular stages of phototransduction in drosophila / R. Paulsen [and others] -- The molecular design of a visual cascade: Assembly of the drosophila phototransduction pathway into a supramolecular signaling complex / R. Paulsen [and others] -- Molecular changes during primary visual pathway development / K.L. Moya, A.W. Lyckman and A. Confaloni -- Metabolism of a synaptic protein in mature retinal terminals In vivo: Implications for Alzheimer's disease / K.L. Moya, A.W. Lyckman and A. Confaloni -- Site directed mutagenesis of phosphorylation sites in the C-terminal region of drosophila RH1 opsin / G. Neu [and others] -- Isolation of novel eye-specifically expressed genes by differential hybridization of a retinal cDNA library of calliphora vicina / S. Schulz [and others] -- Cellular level. What do butterflies "see" with their genitalia? Biological function of the genital photoreceptors of the swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus / K. Arikawa -- Color vision and retinal randomness of the Japanese yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus / K. Arikawa [and others] -- Patch-clamping solitary visual cells to understand the cellular mechanisms of invertebrate phototransduction / C. Musio -- Phototransduction in a depolarizing photoreceptor of vertebrates / W.-H. Xiong [and others] -- Phototransduction in retinal rods and cones / Y. Koutalos [and others] -- Formation of "ON" and "OFF" ganglion cell mosaics / L.M. Chalupa -- Developmental specificity of retinal projections in the prenatal monkey / L.M. Chalupa -- Hyperpolarizing vs depolarizing photoreceptors: Implications for the length of the light sensitive region and for the conductance of the photosensitive channels / J.-P. Raynauld -- Subcellular localization of InsP3 receptor-like immunoreactivity in invertebrate microvillar photoreceptors / K. Ukhanov, R. Payne and B. Walz -- Light adaptive effect of nitric oxide on cone plasticity in fish and amphibian retinae / A.R. Angotzi [and others] -- Possible relationships between the shaping of asymmetrical projections of the frontal organ with asymmetrical habenular activity during the frog brain development / V. Guglielmotti -- Effect of photic stimulation and photodeprivation in the taurine content in discrete brain regions and retina / V.V. Subbarao and D. Rao -- Integrative level. The roles of eye movements in animals / M.F. Land -- Endogenous nitric oxide modulates signal transmission from photoreceptors to on-center bipolar cells in the rabbit retina / B. Lei and I. Perlman -- Colour matching in red/green chromaticity type horizontal cells of the turtle retina / H. Asi, A. Itzhaki and I. Perlman.

Now you see it, now you don't: Shunting inhibition in early vision / L. Borg-Graham, C. Monier and Y. Fregnac -- Perceptual learning as a sign of adult cortical plasticity / N. Berardi and A. Fiorentini -- Pigeons' visual field when binocularity is kept out at different life stages / D. Musumeci, G. Cesaretti and C. Kusmic -- Decision time for correct and incorrect responses in size discrimination / S.V. Chukova, A.J. Ahumada, Jr. and E.A. Vershinina -- Learning of combined-features search: Specificity of stimulus characteristics / G. Campana and C. Casco -- Parafoveal preview facilitation in a lexical decision task is visually based / M. Orioli and C. Casco -- Masking effect in orienting of attention / A. Vestri -- The modulation of multistable visual perception and the intentional penetrability of visual processing / C. Taddei-Ferretti [and others] -- Influence of dot number and angle amplitude on Muller-Lyer illusion / V. Di Maio -- Computational and cognitive level. Visual perceptual learning / N. Berardi and A. Fiorentini -- Functions of the primate temporal lobe cortical visual areas in invariant visual object and face recognition / E.T. Rolls -- Functions of the primate temporal lobe cortical visual areas in invariant visual object and face recognition: Computational mechanisms / E.T. Rolls -- Orienting reflex: Selective habituation / E.N. Sokolov -- Vector code in neuronal networks / E.N. Sokolov -- Vector coding underlying individual transformations of a color space / G.V. Paramei and D.L. Bimler -- Gabor population codes for orientation selection / N. Ludtke and E. Hancock -- Analysis and interpretation of Escher's impossible buildings by means of a space-variant retinal model / P. Gaultieri and L. Taibi -- A realistic neural network simulating functions of a visual cortical module / I.Z. Kremen -- Synchronization in the visual cortex: A biophysical approach / A. Di Garbo, M. Barbi and S. Chillemi -- The interpolation between unsimilar views of a 3-D object increases the similarity and decreases the significance of local phase / G. Peters -- Simplifying raw images / C. Arcelli andL. Serino -- Preserving pattern features at different scales / G. Ramella and G. Sanniti di Baja -- Pictorial and verbal components in artificial intelligence explanations / E. Burattini, M. de Gregorio and G. Tamburrini -- A mathematical model of depth displacement of contracting 2-D figures. Part A: Rectangles of constant width undergoing lateral displacements / E. Xausa, L. Beghi and M. Zanforlin -- A mathematical model of depth displacement of contracting 2-D figures. Part B: Contracting rectangles with invariant side ratio / L. Beghi, E. Xausa and M. Zanforlin.

The light sense is conceivably the key sense in both the animal and the plant kingdom. Vision research, undoubtedly a fast-growing field, is providing impressive results - thanks to modern theoretical and methodological advances. The approach of biophysics and neuroscience seems to be of great benefit and, for this reason, the present book gives an outline of recent acquisitions and updated advanced methods concerning this approach. Visual mechanisms and processes are analysed at several (molecular, cellular, integrative, computational and cognitive) levels by different methodologies (from molecular biology to computation) applied to different living models (from protists to humans, via invertebrates and lower vertebrates).

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