Plasticity in the visual system : from genes to circuits / edited by Raphael Pinaud, Liisa A. Tremere, and Peter De Weerd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pinaud, Raphael.

Tremere, Liisa A.

De Weerd, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vision.

Neuroplasticity.

Vision, Ocular--physiology.

Neuronal Plasticity.

Medical Subjects:

Vision, Ocular--physiology.

Neuronal Plasticity.

Physical Description:

xv, 364 pages : illustrations (partly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2006]

Contents:

Ch. 1 Introduction: Plasticity in the visual system: from genes to circuits / Peter De Weerd, Raphael Pinaud and Liisa A. Tremere

Pt. I Retinal and thalamic plasticity

Ch. 2 Synaptic plasticity and structural remodeling of rod and cone cells / Ellen Townes-Anderson and Nan Zhang

Ch. 3 Retinal remodeling: circuitry revisions triggered by photoreceptor degeneration / Robert E. Marc, Bryan W. Jones and Carl B. Watt

Ch. 4 Retinal plasticity and interactive cellular remodeling in retinal detachment and reattachment / Geoffrey P. Lewis and Steven K. Fisher

Ch. 5 Experience-dependent rewiring of retinal circuitry: involvement of immediate early genes / Raphael Pinaud and Liisa A. Tremere

Ch. 6 Attentional activation of cortico-reticulo-thalamic pathways revealed by Fos imaging / Vicente Montero

Pt. II Cortical plasticity

Ch. 7 Neuromodulatory transmitters in sensory processing and plasticity in the primary visual cortex / Raphael Pinaud, Thomas A. Terleph and Liisa A. Tremere

Ch. 8 Critical calcium-regulated biochemical and gene expression programs involved in experience-dependent plasticity / R aphael Pinaud

Ch. 9 The molecular biology of sensory map plasticity in adult mammals / Lutgarde Arckens

Ch. 10 Plasticity of retinotopic maps in visual cortex of cats and monkeys after lesions of the retina or primary visual cortex / Jon H. Kaas, Christine E. Collins and Yuzo M. Chino

Ch. 11 Intra-cortical inhibition in the regulation of receptive field properties and neural plasticity in the primary visual cortex / Liisa A. Tremere and Raphael Pinaud

Ch. 12 Plasticity in V1 induced by perceptual learning / Peter De Weerd, Raphael Pinaud and Giuseppe Bertini

Ch. 13 Investigating higher order cognitive functions in the dorsal (magnocellular) stream of visual processing / Antonio F. Fortes and Hugo Merchant

Ch. 14 Dopamine-dependent associative learning of workload-predicting cues in the temporal lobe of the monkey / Barry J. Richmond

Pt. III Theoretical considerations

Ch. 15 Linking visual development and learning to information processing: pre-attentive and attentive brain dynamics / Stephen Grossberg

Ch. 16 Conclusion: a unified theoretical framework for plasticity in visual circuitry / Liisa A Tremere, Peter De Weerd and Raphael Pinaud.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0387281894

0387281908

OCLC:

61123195

Publisher Number:

9780387281896

9780387281902