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[James T. Fulton]

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT


PROCESSES IN BIOLOGICAL VISION


by JAMES T. FULTON



Hardcover-900 pages, 250 illustrations. Publication: Early 2003 $110

CD-ROM-1100 pages, 300 illustrations. Beta release available now $25 for more material

PRE-PUBLICATION REVIEW available to all VisionScienceList subscribers at, www.4colorvision.com/reviewers.html 

PROCESSES IN BIOLOGICAL VISION presents the first comprehensive theoretical basis of the biological visual system. It provides the first end-to-end description of the visual system from which the performance parameters of the system are developed. These performance descriptors are shown to form the foundation for all of the empirical descriptors found in the literature. It presents a fundamental architecture and expanded tetrachromatic zone theory applicable to all animals. It demonstrates that humans are "blocked tetrachromats," a more precise description than that of trichromats as previously assumed. PART C provides the first contiguous description of the signaling between the circuits of the photoreceptor cells and those of the stellate cells of the cortex. Closed form equations are provided to allow the elimination of all templates and serial expansions from the science of vision.



PROCESSES IN BIOLOGICAL VISION is written for those working at the frontiers of vision science and those required to stay at the leading edge of knowledge regarding vision. It is directed at students and teachers at the upper university level and beyond. It goes beyond the conventional wisdom in many particulars and is fully referenced.

PROCESSES IN BIOLOGICAL VISION contains 18 Chapters divided into 5 major Parts, plus Appendices and Addenda:

PART A- Environment and Physiology of Vision

1. Introduction, including a phylogenic tree based on vision

2. Environment, First Order Operation and Coordinate Reference System

3. Description of the Retina

4. The Photo-Receptor Cell of the Chordate Eye

PART B- Bioelectrochemistry of the Photoreceptor

5. The Photochemistry of Animal Vision

6. Static Properties of the Retina

7. Dynamics of Vision

PART C- Electrochemistry of the Visual Neuron

8. The Basic Neuron of Vision

9. More Complex Neurons

10. The Morphology & Electrophysiology of the Neuron

PART D- Detailed Modeling of the Overall Visual Process

11. Introduction to modeling of biological phenomena

12. Primary Signal Processing--Signal Detection

13. Secondary Signal Processing--Signal Manipulation

14. Introduction to modeling of biological phenomena 

15. Higher Level Perception

PART E- Overall Performance of the Visual System

16. The Equations of Vision and their confirmation

17. Performance descriptors of Vision

18. Clinical electrophysiology & visual Abnormalities in Man

Appendix A-The Complete Solution to the Photoexcitation/De-excitation Equation

Appendix L- The Standardized Human Eye

Appendix M-The Standardized Neurons

GLOSSARY

A complete list of the Chapters (3 level table of contents), Appendices and Addendum are available at 

www.4colorvision.com/shorttoc.htm 

Individual chapters of the book are available for downloading at www.4colorvision.com/document.htm

Synopses, summary of new performance descriptors and general material available

at www.4colorvision.com 

All Beta versions of chapters, appendices and addendums available on CD-ROM

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