Cerebral Cortex

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. From Imhotep to Hubel and Wiesel

   • Charles G. Gross

   Pages 1-58

3. Past and Present Ideas About How the Visual Scene Is Analyzed by the Brain

   • Peter H. Schiller

   Pages 59-90

4. Theories of Visual Cortex Organization in Primates

   • Jon H. Kaas

   Pages 91-125

5. Visuotopic Organization of Primate Extrastriate Cortex

   • Marcello G. P. Rosa

   Pages 127-203

6. The Timing of Information Transfer in the Visual System

   • Lionel G. Nowak, Jean Bullier

   Pages 205-241

7. Elements of Cortical Architecture

   • Kathleen S. Rockland

   Pages 243-293

8. The Functional Architecture of Area V2 in the Macaque Monkey

   • Anna Wang Roe, Daniel Y. Ts’o

   Pages 295-333

9. Functional Organization of Area V2 in the Awake Monkey

   • Esther Peterhans

   Pages 335-357

10. Visual Processing in Macaque Area MT/V5 and Its Satellites (MSTd and MSTv)

    • Guy A. Orban

    Pages 359-434

11. The Superior Temporal Polysensory Region in Monkeys

    • Catherine G. Cusick

    Pages 435-468

12. Columnar Organization in the Inferotemporal Cortex

    • Keiji Tanaka

    Pages 469-498

13. Construction and Representation of Visual Space in the Inferior Parietal Lobule

    • Ralph M. Siegel, Heather L. Read

    Pages 499-525

14. Visuomotor Areas of the Frontal Lobe

    • Jeffrey D. Schall

    Pages 527-638

15. Development and Plasticity of Extrastriate Visual Cortex in Monkeys

    • Hillary R. Rodman, Tirin Moore

    Pages 639-672

16. Architecture, Connectivity, and Transmitter Receptors of Human Extrastriate Visual Cortex

    • Karl Zilles, Stephanie Clarke

    Pages 673-742

17. Functional Organization of Human Visual Cortical Areas

    • Balázs Gulyás

    Pages 743-775

18. The Color and Motion Systems as Guides to Conscious Visual Perception

    • S. Zeki

    Pages 777-809

19. Back Matter

    Pages 811-844

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Over the last twenty-five years, there has been an extensive effort, still growing for that matter, to explore and understand the organization of extrastriate cor­ tex in primates. We now recognize that most of caudal neocortex is visual in some sense and that this large visual region includes many distinct areas. Some of these areas have been well defined, and connections, neural properties, and the functional consequences of deactivations have been studied. More recently, non­ invasive imaging of cortical activity patterns during visual tasks has led to an expanding stream of papers on extrastriate visual cortex of humans, and results have been related to theories of visual cortex organization that have emerged from research on monkeys. Against this backdrop, the time seems ripe for a review of progress and a glance at the future. One caveat important to emphasize at the very onset is that the reader may be puzzled or confused by the use of different terminologies. Individual investi­ gators commonly tend to favor different terminologies, but in general some prove more advantageous than others. As discussed by Rowe and Stone (1977) as well as by others, there is an unfortunate tendency for role-indicating names to lead to fixed ideas about function, in contrast to those that are more neutral and adaptable to new findings.

• brain
• cerebral cortex
• cortex
• information
• physiology
• primates

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• Department of Neurology, 2007 RCP, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

  Kathleen S. Rockland

• Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

  Jon H. Kaas

• Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA

  Alan Peters

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