The Psychobiology of Sensory CodingOriginally published in 1973, this book deals with what were, even at that time, the well-known neural coding processes of the sensory transmission processes. The book was written to demonstrate the common features of the various senses. It concentrates on the most peripheral neural aspects of the senses starting with the physical transduction process and culminating in the arrival of signals at the brain. |
Contents
THERMAL STIMULI | |
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The Anatomy of Receptors and the Sensory Pathways | |
THE ELECTRON MICROSCOPE SOME BASICRESEARCHTECHNIQUES IN NEUROANATOMY | |
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The ofSensory Magnitude | |
THRESHOLDS AND SIGNAL DETECTION The Theory ofSignal Detection | |
THE RESPONSE DYNAMIC | |
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Feature DetectionNeurophysiology and Psychophysics | |
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Chapter 4 | |
SOMATOSENSATION | |
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Coding | |
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Chapter 10 | |
The ProductionoftheAuditory | |
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