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Introduction to the Visual System and Organization of the Retina: Anatomy and physiology of the retina, ganglion-cell receptive field organization, pre-ganglionic elements |
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A. The Lateral Geniculate Nucleus: Laminar organization of the LGN, receptive field properties of single cells
B. The Striate Cortex: Striate cortex receptive field organization, cytoarchitecture, modular organization, imaging |
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Extrastriate Areas: Specificity of areas, single-cell receptive field properties, topography, imaging, functional and anatomical connections |
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The ON and OFF Channels and Brightness Perception: The ON and OFF channels and their function in vision |
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The Midget and Parasol Systems: Characteristics, connections and functions of the midget and parasol systems |
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Color Vision and Adaptation: The processing of wavelength information in the visual system, perception at isoluminance
Adaptation phenomena and the neural mechanisms of visual adaptation |
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Eye Movement Control, Subcortical Structures: Codes for the generation of visually guided eye movements, the role of excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms in eye movement generation |
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Eye Movement Control, Cortical Structures: Parallel pathways for the control of visually guided eye movements, functions of cortical areas in eye-movement generation |
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Motion Perception and Smooth-pursuit Eye Movements: Motion processing in cortical and subcortical visual structures
Pursuit eye movements |
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Depth Perception: Depth perception and underlying neural mechanisms |
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Pattern Perception: Pattern perception, underlying neural mechanisms and the significance of topographic organization
Review of the course |
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Visual Illusions: What illusions can convey about how the brain processes visual information and what we know about the brain that can explain some illusions |
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Visual Prosthesis: Assessment of the research on visual prosthesis and discussion of the major tasks involved in making a visual prosthetic feasible |
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