The Neural Basis of Early Vision

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Psychophysics to Biophysics: How a Perception Depends on Circuits, Synapses, and Vesicles....Pages 1-1
Phototransduction in Rods and Cones, and Beyond....Pages 2-3
Efficiency of Phototransduction Cascade in Cones....Pages 4-4
Voltage-Gated Ion Channels in Human Photoreceptors: Na + and Hyperpolarization-Activated Cation Channels....Pages 5-14
Neuroinformatics in Vision Science: NRV Project and VISIOME Platform....Pages 15-18
The Cone Pedicle, the First Synapse in the Retina....Pages 19-38
Transmission at the Mammalian Cone Photoreceptor Basal Synapse....Pages 39-39
Impaired Transmission from Photoreceptors to Bipolar Cells: Mouse Models....Pages 40-40
Selective Dysfunction of On- and/or Off-Bipolar Cell in Human Diseases....Pages 41-41
Neural Circuit Contributing to the Formation of the Receptive Surround....Pages 42-43
GABAergic Modulation of Ephaptic Feedback in the Outer Retina....Pages 44-45
SN1 Catalyzes Transport of Glutamine Across Müller Cells in Retina....Pages 46-47
Some Functions of Amacrine Cells....Pages 48-49
Synaptic Mechanisms Underlying Direction Selectivity in Rabbit Retinal Ganglion Cells....Pages 50-51
Processing and Integration Mechanisms of Visual Transmission in the Retinal Network....Pages 52-52
Narrow-Field Amacrine Cells Mediate OFF Signals Between B2 Bipolar and Ganglion Cells in the Mouse Retina....Pages 53-54
Functional Roles of Action Potentials and Na Currents in Amacrine Cells....Pages 55-58
Neural Mechanisms of Synchronous Oscillations in Retinal Ganglion Cells....Pages 59-60
Adaptation of the Retinal Code: What the Eye Does Not Tell the Brain....Pages 61-61
Coding Properties of the Avian ON-OFF Retinal Ganglion Cells....Pages 62-63
Spatiotemporal Changes in Gap Junctional Communication During Retinal Development and Regeneration of Adult Newt....Pages 64-64
Development and Plasticity in the Postnatal Mouse Retina....Pages 65-65
Representation of Visual Information in Simple and Complex Cells in the Primary Visual Cortex....Pages 66-67
Diversity of Computation of Orientation and Direction Preference by Visual Cortical Neurons: An Intracellular Reexamination....Pages 68-69
Assembly of Receptive Fields in Cat Visual Cortex....Pages 70-70
Local Circuit in the Cerebral Cortex....Pages 71-72
Properties and Possible Mechanisms of Response Modulation by the Receptive Field Surround in the Cat Primary Visual Cortex....Pages 73-73
Representation of Surface Luminance and Brightness in Macaque Visual Cortex....Pages 74-74
Inhibitory Circuits that Control Critical Period Plasticity in Developing Visual Cortex....Pages 75-76
Substrates of Rapid Plasticity in Developing Visual Cortex....Pages 77-77
Actions of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor on Function and Morphology of Visual Cortical Neurons....Pages 78-79
Distance and Size Estimation in the Tiger Beetle Larva: Behavioral, Morphological, and Electrophysiological Approaches....Pages 80-85
Extraocular Photoreception of a Marine Gastropoda, Onchidium : Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Axons of Dermal Photoreceptor Cells in the Dorsal Mantle Examined with a High-Voltage Electron Microscope....Pages 86-90
The Cystein-Rich Domains of RDGA, a Drosophila Eye-Specific Diacylglycerol Kinase, Are Required for Protein Localization and Enzyme Activity....Pages 91-91
Polymorphic Variations in Long- and Middle-Wavelength-Sensitive Opsin Gene Loci in Crab-Eating Monkeys....Pages 92-93
S- and M-Cone Electroretinograms in rd7 Mice with NR2E3 Gene Mutation....Pages 94-95
Activation of Group Ill Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Suppresses the Membrane Currents in Newt Photoreceptors....Pages 96-96
Quantitative Analysis of Signal Transduction in the Olfactory Receptor Cell....Pages 97-97
RPE65-Related Proteins Constitute a Retinoid- and Carotenoid-Metabolizing Protein Family Throughout the Animal and Plant Kingdom....Pages 98-102
Simulation Analysis of Retinal Horizontal Cells....Pages 103-107
External Proton Mediates the Feedback from Horizontal Cells to Cones in the Newt Retina....Pages 108-109
A Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Mediates Synaptic Transmission from Blue-Sensitive Cones to ON-Bipolar Cells in Carp Retina....Pages 110-110
Mathematical Model Study of Continuous Transmitter Release in the Synaptic Terminal of Goldfish Retinal Bipolar Cells....Pages 111-112
The Role of Ionic Currents in Shaping Light Responses of Retinal Bipolar Cell....Pages 113-116
Asymmetric Temporal Properties in the Receptive Field of Transient Amacrine Cells in Carp Retina....Pages 117-117
Spatial Asymmetry and Temporal Delay of Inhibitory Amacrine Cells Produce Directional Selectivity in Retina....Pages 118-119
Fast Calcium Imagings of Amacrine Cell Dendrites in Horizontally Sliced Goldfish Retina....Pages 120-120
Distribution and Morphological Features of the Retinal Ganglion Cells in Chicks....Pages 121-125
Homotypic Gap Junction Connections Between Retinal Amacrine Cells....Pages 126-133
A Retinal Ganglion Cell Model Based on Discrete Stochastic Ion Channels....Pages 134-137
Retinal Adaptation to the Spatiotemporal Statistical Structure of Visual Input....Pages 138-138
Zinc as a Neurotransmitter in the Rat Retina....Pages 139-142
Suppression by Odorants of Voltage-Gated and Ligand-Gated Channels in Retinal Neurons....Pages 143-146
Dopamine D 1 Receptor on Cultured Müller Cells....Pages 147-147
Origin of Intracellular Ca 2+ Concentration Increase by Hypoxia Differs Between Müller Cells and Ganglion Cells....Pages 148-148
Expression of Otx2 in Regenerating and Developing Newt Retina....Pages 149-149
Genes Involved in the Retinal Development Are Also Expressed in the Retinal Regeneration....Pages 150-150
Difference in Survival and Axonal Regeneration Between Alpha and Beta Types of Cat Retinal Ganglion Cells....Pages 151-155
Survival-Promoting Effect of Electrical Stimulation on Axotomized Retinal Ganglion Cells....Pages 156-159
A New Cl Channel Family Defined by Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy....Pages 160-163
Pharmacological Aspects of Nilvadipine-Induced Preservation of Retinal Degeneration in RCS Rat Analyzed by mRNA Profiling Assay....Pages 164-167
Nilvadipine, a Ca 2+ Antagonist, Effectively Preserves Photoreceptor Functions in Royal College of Surgeons Rat....Pages 168-172
Aberrantly Expressed Recoverin in Tumor Tissues from Gastric Cancer Patients....Pages 173-176
Cancer-Associated Retinopathy (CAR) is Effectively Treated by Ca 2+ Antagonist Administration....Pages 177-181
Effects of Calcium Channel Blockers on Retinal Morphology and Function of rd Mouse....Pages 182-187
Chemically Induced Mutations in the Mouse that Affect the Fundus and Electroretinogram....Pages 188-189
Unitary Event Analysis of Synchronous Activities in Cat Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN)....Pages 190-193
Functional Mapping of Neural Activity in the Embryonic Avian Visual System: Optical Recording with a Voltage-Sensitive Dye....Pages 194-198
Interactive Vision: A New Columnar System in Layer 2....Pages 199-203
Cross-Correlation Study of Network Dynamics in the Cat Primary Visual Cortex....Pages 204-204
Contrast-Dependent Gain Control of the Contextual Response Modulation in the Cat Primary Visual Cortex....Pages 205-208
Contribution of Excitation and Inhibition to the Stimulus Size- and Orientation-Tuning of Response Modulation by the Receptive Field Surround in the Cat Primary Visual Cortex....Pages 209-212
Effects of Chronic Exposure to Vertical Orientation on the Development of Orientation Preference Maps....Pages 213-216
Self-Organization Model of Ocular Dominance Columns and Cytochrome Oxidase Blobs in the Primary Visual Cortex of Monkeys and Cats....Pages 217-220
Long-Range Horizontal Connections Assist the Formation of Robust Orientation Maps....Pages 221-224
Experience-Dependent Self-Organization of Visual Cortical Receptive Fields and Maps....Pages 225-229
Distributions of Binocular Phase Disparities in Natural Stereopair Images....Pages 230-230
A Network Model for Figure/Ground Determination Based on Contrast Information....Pages 231-235
Neural Responses to the Uniform Surface Stimuli in the Visual Cortex of the Cat....Pages 236-237
Cascaded Energy Model as the Basis for Neural Processing in V2....Pages 238-239
Behavioral and Physiological Study of Color Processing in Human Brain....Pages 240-244
Inhibitory Mechanisms Underlying Stimulus-Selective Responses of Inferior Temporal Neurons....Pages 245-249
Back Matter....Pages 250-253