Advances in Photoreception: Proceedings of a Symposium on Frontiers of Visual Science

National Research Council

doi:10.17226/1570

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Advances in Photoreception

Proceedings of a Symposium on Frontiers of Visual Science

(1990)

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One of a continuing series on Frontiers of Visual Science, this short volume contains papers presented at a recent symposium. These papers describe techniques for assessing the structure and function of photoreception, both in isolation and in aggregation as the "receptor mosaic" of the retina. Also described are dynamic and spatial sampling properties of photoreceptors, with an emphasis on techniques of measurement and associated models of retinal function.

This volume should be of interest to basic vision scientists, clinical ophthalmologists, workers in human factors, and computer scientists curious about the visual apparatus of biological systems.

Contributor(s): National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Committee on Vision

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Health and Medicine — Health Sciences

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National Research Council. 1990. Advances in Photoreception: Proceedings of a Symposium on Frontiers of Visual Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/1570.

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160 pages | 6 x 9 | Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-309-04240-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/1570

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-viii
Introduction	1-1
Optical and Molecular Design of Rods	2-16
Color and Wavelength Specificity of Receptors	17-18
Cone Visual Pigments in Monkeys and Humans	19-30
Photosensitivity of Primate Photoreceptors	31-38
Transduction, Adaptation, and Disease Processes	39-40
The ERG and Sites and Mechanisms of Retinal Disease, Adaptation, and Development	41-58
Phototransduction in Vertebrate Rods: The Electrophysiological Approach to the cGMP Cascade Theory	59-77
Partitioning Visual Processes	78-102
Spatial Effects of Photoreceptor Mosaic	103-104
The Distribution of Cones in the Primate Retina	105-116
The Photoreceptor Mosaic as an Image Sampling Device	117-134
The Invisible Cone Mosaic	135-148

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