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Sensory Communication

Walter A. Rosenblith

Abstract

This book 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 “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 publish ... More

Keywords: international symposium, sensory communication, vision, perceptual science, neuroscientists, life scientists, physical scientists, engineers, neurophysiology, psychophysics

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2012 Print ISBN-13: 9780262518420
Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013 DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262518420.001.0001

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Walter A. Rosenblith, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Participants

1 The Psychophysics of Sensory Function

S. S. Stevens

2 Some Aspects of Psychophysical Research

Ekman Gösta

3 On Psychophysiological Models

J. C. R. Licklider

4 Cutaneous Channels of Communication

Geldard Frank A.

5 Selected Developments in Psychophysics, with Implications for Sensory Organization

Pollack Irwin

6 Two Ears — but One World

Cherry Colin

7 Peripheral Coding of Auditory Information

Davis Hallowell

8 Mechanisms of Gustatory and Olfactory Receptor Stimulation

Beidler Lloyd M.

9 The Absolute Sensitivity of the Human Sense of Smell

Vries Hessel De, and Stuiver Minze

10 Peripheral Coding in the Nervous System

W. A. H. Rushton

11 Inhibitory Interaction and the Detection and Enhancement of Contours

J. C. R. Licklider

12 Studies in the Neural Mechanism of Taste

Zotterman Yngve

13 Possible Principles Underlying the Transformations of Sensory Messages

H. B. Barlow

14 Organization of Cortical Auditory System

Woolsey Clinton N.

15 Neural Mechanisms of Auditory Discrimination

Neff William D.

16 Neural Growth in the Cerebral Cortex after Lesions Produced by Monoenergetic Deuterons

Rose Jerzy E., Malis Leonard I., and Baker Charles P.

17 Autocorrelation, a Principle for the Evaluation of Sensory Information by the Central Nervous System

Reichardt Werner

18 Adaptation: Loss or Gain of Sensory Information?

Keidel Wolf D., Keidel Ursula O., and Wigand Malte E.

19 Interactive Processes in Visual Perception

D. M. MacKay

20 The Physiological Basis of Wave-Length Discrimination in the Eye of the Honeybee

Goldsmith Timothy H.

21 History and Present Status of Quantum Theory in Vision

M. A. Bouman

22 Some Functional Properties of the Somatic Afferent System

Mountcastle Vernon B.

23 The Response of Thalamic and Cortical Neurons to Electrical and Physiological Stimulation of the Cat’s Tongue

Landgren Sven

24 Gustatory Discharges in the Rat Medulla and Thalamus

Pfaffmann Carl, R. P. Erickson, G. P. Frommer, and B. P. Halpern

25 Two Transmission Systems for Skin Sensations

Wall Patrick D.

26 Reticular Mechanisms of Sensory Control

Hernández-Peón Raúl

27 The Transfer of Optic Information through the Lateral Geniculate Body of the Rabbit

Arden Geoffrey B., and Söderberg Ulf

28 The Reception of Bat Cries by the Tympanic Organ of Noctuid Moths

Roeder Kenneth D., and Treat Asher E.

29 Neural Mechanism of Auditory Sensation in Cats

Katsuki Yasuji

30 The Role of Neuronal Networks in Sensory Communications within the Brain

Fessard A.

31 Sensory Projections to the Motor Cortex in Cats: a Microelectrode Study

Buser P., and Imbert M.

32 Neuronal Integration in the Visual Cortex and Its Significance for Visual Information

Jung Richard

33 Neurogenic Factors Influencing the Evoked Potentials of the Cerebral Cortex

Bremer F.

34 The Reactivity of the Nervous System in the Light of the Past History of the Organism

Neurophysiological Laboratory,2 Massachusetts General Hospital, Research Laboratory of Electronics,3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Department of Anatomy,4 University of California, Los Angeles

35 The Problem of Recognition in an Analyzer Made of Neurons

Bullock Theodore H.

36 Neural Factors limiting Cutaneous Spatiotemporal Discriminations

Rosner Burton S.

37 Some Temporal Factors in Vision

Boynton Robert M.

38 Two Remarks on the Visual System of the Frog

J. Y. Lettvin, H. R. Maturana, W. H. Pitts, and W. S. Mcculloch

39 Comments

Walter A. Rosenblith

40 Editor’s Comment

Walter A. Rosenblith

End Matter

Name Index

Subject Index