Contents

• 1. The retina and the visual image
• 2. Functional specialization in human cerebral cortex
• 3. The representation of the retina in the primary visual cortex
• 4. Colour in the cerebral cortex
• 5. The evidence against a colour centre in the cortex
• 6. The concept of the duality of the visual process
• 7. The extent of the visual receptive cortex
• 8. The spell of cortical architecture
• 9. Hierarchies in the visual system
• 10. A motion-blind patient
• 11. The multiple visual areas of the cerebral cortex
• 12. The basic anatomy of the visual areas
• 13. Parallelism in the visual cortex
• 14. Functional specialization in the visual cortex
• 15. Functional specialization in human visual cortex
• 16. The collapse of the old concepts
• 17. The mapping of visual functions in the brain
• 18. The corpus callosum as a guide to functional specialization in the visual cortex
• 19. Functional segregation in cortical areas feeding the specialized visual areas
• 20. The P and M pathways and the ‘what and where’ doctrine
• 21. The modularity of the brain
• 22. The plasticity of the brain
• 23. Colour vision and the brain
• 24. The cerebral cortex as a categorizer
• 25. The retinex theory and the organization of the colour pathways in the brain
• 26. The physiology of the colour pathways
• 27. Some specific visual disturbances of cerebral origin
• 28. A tense relationship
• 29. A theory of multi-stage integration in the visual cortex
• 30. The disintegration of cerebral integration
• 31. The anatomy of integration
• 32. Further unsolved problems of integration
• 33. Consciousness and knowledge through vision