The roots of visual awareness : a festschrift in honour of Alan Cowey

The present volume was assembled in honor of Professor Alan Cowey FRS, and attempts to embrace his wide range of research interests in visual neuroscience. It is divided into four sections. The first contains a group of papers dealing with different fundamental aspects of the visual system, including the control and monitoring of eye movements. The second is concerned with the functional organization of cortical visual areas and their role in visual perception and visually guided action. The third addresses issues concerning color and motion perception, along with broader questions of visual attention; and the effects of selective brain damage on these different aspects of visual experience. The fourth and final section of the volume deals explicitly with questions relating to visual awareness, with particular emphasis on 'blindsight', a topic on which Alan Cowey has worked extensively in recent years, both in humans and in monkeys. Content: List of Contributors Pages v-vii Foreword Pages ix-x Contents Pages xiii-xv Developmental plasticity of photoreceptors Review Article Pages 1-19 Benjamin E. Reese Morphology and physiology of primate M- and P-cells Review Article Pages 21-46 Luiz Carlos L. Silveira, Cézar A. Saito, Barry B. Lee, Jan Kremers, Manoel da Silva Filho, Bjørg E. Kilavik, Elizabeth S. Yamada, V.Hugh Perry Identifying corollary discharges for movement in the primate brain Review Article Pages 47-60 Robert H. Wurtz, Marc A. Sommer Visual awareness and the cerebellum: possible role of decorrelation control Review Article Pages 61-75 Paul Dean, John Porrill, James V. Stone Some effects of cortical and callosal damage on conscious and unconscious processing of visual information and other sensory inputs Review Article Pages 77-93 Giovanni Berlucchi Consciousness absent and present: a neurophysiological exploration Review Article Pages 95-106 Edmund T. Rolls Rapid serial visual presentation for the determination of n eural selectivity in area STSa Review Article Pages 107-116 Peter Földiák, Dengke Xiao, Christian Keysers, Robin Edwards, David Ian Perrett Cortical interactions in vision and awareness: hierarchies in reverse Review Article Pages 117-130 Chi-Hung Juan, Gianluca Campana, Vincent Walsh Two distinct modes of control for object-directed action Review Article Pages 131-144 Melvyn A. Goodale, David A. Westwood, A. David Milner Color contrast: a contributory mechanism to color constancy Review Article Pages 145-160 Anya Hurlbert, Kit Wolf The primacy of chromatic edge processing in normal and cerebrally achromatopsic subjects Review Article Pages 161-169 R.W. Kentridge, G.G. Cole, C.A. Heywood Neuroimaging studies of attention and the processing of emotion-laden stimuli Review Article Pages 171-182 Luiz Pessoa, Leslie G. Ungerleider Selective visual attention, visual search and visual awareness Review Article Pages 183-196 Charles M. Butter First-order and second-order motion: neurological evidence for neuroanatomically distinct systems Review Article Pages 197-212 Lucia M. Vaina, Sergei Soloviev Reaching between obstacles in spatial neglect and visual extinction Review Article Pages 213-226 A.David Milner, Robert D. McIntosh Roots of blindsight Review Article Pages 227-241 L. Weiskrantz ‘Double-blindsight’ revealed through the processing of color and luminance contrast defined motion signals Review Article Pages 243-259 John L. Barbur Stimulus cueing in blindsight Review Article Pages 261-277 Alan Cowey, Petra Stoerig Visually guided behavior after V1 lesions in young and adult monkeys and its relation to blindsight in humans Review Article Pages 279-294 Charles G. Gross, Tirin Moore, Hillary R. Rodman Is blindsight in normals akin to blindsight following brain damage? Review Article Pages 295-303 C.A. Marzi, A. Minelli, S. Savazzi Auras and other hallucinations: windows on the visual brain Review Article Pages 305-320 Frances Wilkinson Theories of visual awareness Review Article Pages 321-329 Adam Zeman Subject Index Pages 331-332 Our visual abilities arise from the capacity of photoreceptor cells to transduce a photic stimulus into a neural response and to transmit this message to second-order neurons.