Models of Neural Networks IV: Early Vision and Attention
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Main Author: Hemmen, J. Leo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2002
Series:Physics of Neural Networks
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Close this book for a moment and look around you. You scan the scene by directing your attention, and gaze, at certain specific objects. Despite the background, you discern them. The process is partially intentional and partially preattentive. How all this can be done is described in the fourth volume of Models of Neural Networks devoted to Early Vision and Attention that you are holding in your hands. Early vision comprises the first stages of visual information processing. It is as such a scientific challenge whose clarification calls for a penetrating review. Here you see the result. The Heraeus Foundation (Hanau) is to be thanked for its support during the initial phase of this project. John Hertz, who has extensive experience in both computational and experimental neuroscience, provides in "Neurons, Networks, and Cognition" to neural modeling. John Van Opstal explains in a theoretical introduction "The Gaze Control System" how the eye's gaze control is performed and presents a novel theoretical description incorporating recent experimental results. We then turn to the relay stations thereafter, the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and the primary visual cortex. Their anatomy, physiology, functional relations, and ensuing response properties are carefully analyzed by Klaus Funke et al. in "Integrating Anatomy and Physiology of the Primary Visual Pathway: From LGN to Cortex", one of the most comprehensive reviews that is available at the moment
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 413 p)
ISBN:9780387217031
9781441928757
ISSN:0939-3145
DOI:10.1007/978-0-387-21703-1

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