The Roots of Visual Awareness (Progress in Brain Research)
Contributors: C.A. Heywood (Editor); A.D. Milner (Editor); C. Blakemore (Editor)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: October 31, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780444509789
Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Neurosciences; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Psychology; Neurology - General; Neuropsychology; Neuroscience; Psychology & Psychiatry / Neuropsychology; Congresses; Visual cortex; Visual pathways; Visual perception
First sentence: Our visual abilities arise from the capacity of photoreceptor cells to transduce a photic stimulus into a neural response and to transmit this message to second-order neurons.