Filling-In: From Perceptual Completion to Cortical Reorganization - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0195140133 ISBN 13: 9780195140132

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2003

Riassunto

The best example of filling-in involves the blind spot, a region of the retina devoid of photoreceptors. Remarkably, the region of visual space corresponding to the blind spot is not perceived as a dark region in space, but instead as having the same colour and texture as the surrounding background; hence the expression "filling in." While this type of perceptual completion phenomenon is common in the visual domain, it is argued by the leading scientists who contribute to this book that forms of filling-in also take place in other sensory modalities, including the auditory, somatosensory, and motor systems. In a concluding chapter an integrative approach is taken, which attempts to provide a common framework for completion phenomena occurring on a fast time scale, and cortical reorganization in sensory and motor cortex induced by peripheral damage or skill learning taking place on a slower time scale. It is proposed that systematic changes in the interplay between inhibitory and excitatory inputs permit cortical neurons to become driven by new sources of input, which, in addition to initial perceptual consequences can lead to a long-term structural reorganization of cortex.

This book represents a truly interdisciplinary approach to neuroscience, with chapters covering computational modelling, visual psychophysics, functional brain imaging, single-cell physiology, and clinical patient cases. It will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, vision science, neuroimaging, perceptual psychology, computational neuroscience, and philosophy of mind.

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Recensione

This book is a pleasure to read. It is always a delight to come across a book that is unique, well written and well edited. The editors are to be congratulated on their fine and valuable contribution to the field of perceptual remapping and cortical reorganization. (Doody's Journal)

Contenuti

• 1: De Weerd & Pessoa: Introduction - Filling-In: More than Meets the Eye
• Part I: Fast-Acting Filling-In in Normal Vision
• 2: Grossberg: Filling-In the Forms: Surface and Boundary Interactions in Visual Cortex
• 3: Mendola: Contextual Shape Processing in Human Visual Cortex: Beginning to Fill-In the Blanks
• 4: Rossi & Paradiso: Surface Completion: Psychophysical and Neurophysiological Studies of Brightness
• 5: Spillman & De Weerd: Mechanisms of Surface Completion: Perceptual Filling-In of Texture
• 6: von Heydt, Friedman & Zhou: Searching for the Neural Mechanism of Colour Filling-In
• 7: Davis & Driver: Effects of Modal Versus Amodal Completion Upon Visual Attention: A Function for Filling-In?
• 8: Neumann: Completion Phenomena in Vision: A Computational Approach
• Part II: From Permanent Scotomas to Cortical Reorganization
• 9: Fiorani, de Oliveira, Volchan, Gattass, Rocha-Miranda & Pessoa: Completion Through a Permanent Scotoma: First Interpolation Across the Blind Spot and the Processing of Occlusion
• 10: Kaas, Collins & Chino: The Reactivation and Reorganization of Retinotopic Maps in the Visual Cortex of Adult Mammals After Retinal and Cortical Lesions
• 11: Mattingly & Walker: The Blind Leading the Mind: Pathological Completion in Hemianopia and Spatial Neglect
• Part III: Long-Term Cortical Remapping
• 12: Pantev, Weisz, Schulte & Elbert: Plasticity of the Human Auditory Cortex
• 13: Doyon & Ungerleider: Plasticity in Adult M1 Cortex During Motor Skill Learning
• 14: Mark & Taub: Cortical Reorganization and the Rehabilitation of Movement by CI Therapy After Neurologic Injury
• 15: Tremere, Pinaud & De Weerd: Conclusion: Contributions of Inhibitory Mechanisms to Perceptual Completion and Cortical Reorganization

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195140133
• ISBN 13: 9780195140132
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 340
• Redattore: Pessoa Luiz, De Weerd Peter
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia