
Retinal Computation
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Description
Key Features
- Provides a practical guide on the field of retinal computation
- Summarizes and clearly explains important topics such as luminance, contrast, spatial features, motion and other computations
- Contains discussion questions, a landmark paper, and programming exercises within each chapter
Readership
Graduate students, researchers and clinicians (opthalmologists) in vision science, computational neuroscience and sensory systems
Table of Contents
PART 1 Luminance
1. Photon detection - Gregory Schwartz
2. Luminance adaptation - Gregory Schwartz and Jared Levine
3. Absolute luminance detection - Gregory Schwartz
PART 2 Contrast
4. Contrast sensitivity - Gregory Schwartz
5. Contrast adaptation and sensitization - Gregory Schwartz
6. Contrast suppression - Gregory Schwartz
PART 3 Spatial features
7. Texture sensitivity - Gregory Schwartz
8. Surround suppression - Gregory Schwartz
9. Object localization - Gregory Schwartz and Devon Greer
10. Orientation selectivity - Gregory Schwartz
PART 4 Motion
11. Direction selectivity - Gregory Schwartz, Gautam B. Awatramani, and Ben Murphy-Baum
12. Object motion sensitivity - Gregory Schwartz and David Swygart
13. Motion anticipation - Gregory Schwartz
14. Threat detection - Gregory Schwartz
PART 5 Other computations
15. Periodic sequence entrainment - Gregory Schwartz
16. Color processing - Gregory Schwartz
Product details
- No. of pages: 340
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: August 7, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128198964
- eBook ISBN: 9780128231777