Sensory communication : contributions to the Symposium on Principles of Sensory Communication, July 19-August 1, 1959, Endicott House, M.I.T. / Walter A. Rosenblith, editor.
Material type:
- 9780262518420 (pbk.)
- 612.8
- QP 435 S989s 1961
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Biblioteca Juan Bosch | Biblioteca Juan Bosch | Humanidades | Humanidades (4to. Piso) | QP 435 S989s 1961 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | 1 | Available | 00000112639 |
Reprint of 1961 publication.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The psychophysics of sensory function -- Some aspects of psychophysical research -- On psychophysical models -- Cutaneous channels of communication -- Selected developments in psychophysics, with implications for sensory organization -- Two ears - but one world -- Peripheral coding of auditory information -- Mechanisms of gustatory and olfactory receptor stimulation -- The absolute sensitivity of the human sense of smell -- Peripheral coding in the nervous system -- Inhibitory interaction and the detection and enhancement of contours -- Studies in the neural mechanism of taste -- Possible principles underlying the transformations of sensory messages -- Organization of cortical auditory system -- Neural mechanisms of auditory discrimination -- Neural growth in the cerebral cortex after lessions produced by monoenergetic deuterons -- Autocorrelation, a principle for the evaluation of sensory information by the central nervous system -- Adaptation: loss or gain of sensory information? -- Interactive processes in visual perceptions -- The physiological basis of wave-length discrimination in the eye of the honeybee -- History and present status of quantum theory in vision -- Some functional properties of the somatic afferent system -- The response of thalamic and cortical neurons to electrical and physiological stimulations of the cat's tongue -- Gustatory discharges in the rat medulla and thalamus -- Two transmissions systems for skin sensations -- Reticular mechanisms of sensory control -- The transfer of optic information through the lateral geniculate body of the rabbit -- The reception of bat cries by the tympanic organ of Noctuid moths -- Neural mechanism of auditory sensation in cats -- The role of neuronal networks in sensory communications within the brain -- Sensory projections to the motor cortex in cats : a microelectrode study -- Neuronal integration in the visual corte and its significance for visual information -- Neurogenic factors influencing the evoked potentials of the cerebral cortex -- The reactivity of the nervous system in the light of the past history of the organism -- The problem of recognition in an analyzer made of neurons -- Neural factors limiting cutaneous spatiotemporal discriminations -- Some temporal factors in vision -- Two remarks on the visual system of the frog -- Comments -- Editor's comment.
This landmark volume, which remains influential today, is the result of an interdisciplinary, two-week international symposium on principles of sensory communication hosted by MIT in July 1959. This symposium brought together prominent neuroscientists, life scientists, physical scientists, and engineers who, in Walter Rosenblith’s words, "were willing to listen to neurophysiologists expound up-to-date neurophysiology, or psychophysicists talk about contemporary psychophysics, without being satisfied with their own version of the other man's science." The work presented forms the basis of much of the contemporary research in vision and perceptual science. First published by the MIT Press in 1961, Sensory Communication has been out of print and extremely difficult to obtain for many years. This reprint makes this valuable resource available again.
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