Overview

The best example of filling-in involves the blind spot, a region of the retina devoid of photoreceptors. Remarkably, the region of visual space corresponding to the blind spot is not perceived as a dark region in space, but instead as having the same color and texture as the surrounding background; hence the expression ""filling in."" While this type of perceptual completion phenomenon is common in the visual domain, it is argued by the leading scientists who contribute to this book that forms of filling-in also take place in other sensory modalities, including the auditory, somatosensory, and motor systems. In a concluding chapter an integrative approach is taken, which attempts to provide a common framework for completion phenomena occurring on a fast time scale, and cortical reorganization in sensory and motor cortex induced by peripheral damage or skill learning taking place on a slower time scale. It is proposed that systematic changes in the interplay between inhibitory and excitatory inputs permit cortical neurons to become driven by new sources of input, which, in addition to initial perceptual consequences can lead to a long-term structural reorganization of cortex. This book represents a truly interdisciplinary approach to neuroscience, with chapters covering computational modeling, visual psychophysics, functional brain imaging, single-cell physiology, and clinical patient cases. It will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, vision science, neuroimaging, perceptual psychology, computational neuroscience, and philosophy of mind.

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Author:   Luiz Pessoa (Research Fellow, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, Research Fellow, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, USA) ,  Peter De Weerd (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Arizona, USA) ,  Peter De Weerd (Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Arizona, USA) ,  V. S. Ramachandran
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.866kg
ISBN:  

9780195140132

ISBN 10:   0195140133
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   10 April 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by V. S. Ramachandran Introduction: Filling-In: More Than Meets the Eye, Peter De Weerd and Luiz Pessoa PART I: Fast-Acting Filling-In in Normal Vision 1: Filling-In the Forms: Surface and Boundary Interactions in the Visual Cortex, Stephen Grossberg, Boston University 2: Contextual Shape Processing in the Human Visual Cortex: Beginning to Fill-In the Blanks, Janine Mendola, West Virginia University School of Medicine 3: Surface Completion: Psychophysical and Neurophysiological Studies of Brightness, Andrew Rossi, National Institute of Mental Health, and Michael Paradiso, Brown University 4: Mechanisms of Surface Completion: Perceptual Filling-In of Texture, Lothar Spillman, Freiburg University, Germany, and Peter De Weerd 5: Searching for the Neural Mechanism of Color Filling-In, Rudiger von Heydt, Howard Friedman, and Hong Zhou, all at Johns Hopkins University 6: Effects of Modal Versus Amodal Completion Upon Visual Attention: A Function for Filling-In?, Greg Davis, Birkbeck College, UK, and Jon Driver, University College, London, UK) 7: Completion Phenomena in Vision: A Computational Approach, Heiko Neumann, Ulm University, Germany PART II: From Permanent Scotomas to Cortical Reorganization 8: Completion Through a Permanent Scotoma: First Interpolation Across the Blind Spot and the Processing of Occlusion, Mario Fiorani, Leticia de Oliveira, Eliane Volchan, Ricardo Gattass, all at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Carlos Eduardo Rocha-Miranda, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and Luiz Pessoa 9: The Reactivation and Reorganization of Retinotopic Maps in the Visual Cortex of Adult Mammals After Retinal and Cortical Lesions, John H. Kaas, Christine E. Collins, both at Vanderbilt University, and Yuzo M. Chino, University of Houston 10: The Blind Leading the Mind: Pathological Completion in Hemianopia and Spatial Neglect, Jason B. Mattingly, University of Melbourne, Australia, and R. Walker, University of London, UK Part III: Long-Term Cortical Remapping 11: Plasticity of the Human Auditory Cortex, Christo Pantev, University of Toronto, Nathan Weisz, Michael Schulte, both at the University of Konstanz, Germany, and Thomas Elbert, University of Munster, Germany 12: Plasticity in Adult M1 During Motor Skill Learning, Julien Doyon, University of Montreal, and Leslie G. Ungerleider, National Institute of Mental Health 13: Cortical Reorganization and the Rehabilitation of Movement by CI Therapy After Neurologic Injury, Victor M. Mark and Edward Taub, both at the University of Alabama, Birmingham 14: Conclusion: Contributions of Inhibitory Mechanisms to Perceptual Completion and Cortical Reorganization, Liisa A. Tremere, Raphael Pinaud, both at the University of Arizona, and Peter De Weerd

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This book is a pleasure to read. It is always a delight to come across a book that is unique, well written and well edited. The editors are to be congratulated on their fine and valuable contribution to the field of perceptual remapping and cortical reorganization. Doody's Journal

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