PROCESSES OF VISION-- Short Table of Contents

PROCESSES IN BIOLOGICAL VISION

Short Table of Contents

Last Update 1 Oct 2014 Rhodonine™ and Activa™: See Citation Page

Working Title:

PROCESSES IN BIOLOGICAL VISION

including

THE BASIS OF THE NEURAL SYSTEM

Author: JAMES T. FULTON

This work is divided into;

5 main PARTS,
Approximately 12 APPENDICES in order to allow a reasonable organization of the material and maintain some continuity in the main text.
and a large Glossary.

A tabulation of the Standardized Human Eye appears in Appendix L, and a Standardized Neuron appears in Appendix M
Appendix N suggests Candidate Experiments for Thesis Subjects based on this work, possibly involving collaboration

FIRST LEVEL TABLE OF CONTENTS

A THIRD LEVEL TABLE OF CONTENTS is also available. A fifth level TABLE is provided with each chapter file.

PART A PHYSIOLOGY read intro. on line

Chapters

1. Introduction
2. Environment, First Order Operation and Coordinate Reference System
3. Description of the Retina
4. The Photo-Receptor Cell of the Chordate Eye

PART B PHOTOCHEMISTRY read intro. on line

5. The Photochemistry of Animal Vision
6. Static Properties of the Retina
7. Dynamics of Vision

PART C ELECTROCHEMISTRY OF THE NEURON read intro. on line

8. The Basic Neuron of Vision
9. More Complex Neurons
10 Part I. The Morphology of the NeuronDownload in pdf format
10 Part II. The Electrophysiology of the NeuronDownload in pdf format

PART D SIGNALING & PSYCHOPHYSICS read intro. on line

11. Introduction to modeling of biological phenomena
12. Primary Signal Processing--Signal Detection
13. Secondary Signal Processing--Signal Manipulation
14. Introduction to modeling of biological phenomena
15 Part I. Higher Level Perception Signal (Vector) Interpretation
15 Part II. Higher Level perception Signal (abstract ) Extraction and Interpretation

PART E SYSTEM LEVEL DESCRIPTORS read intro. on line

16. The Equations of Vision and their confirmation
17 Part Ia. Performance descriptors of Vision--Luminance and Chrominance Performance
17 Part Ib. Performance descriptors of Vision--New Chromaticity Diagram & comparison to other color spaces
17 Part II. Performance descriptors of Vision--Temporal and Spatial Performance
18. Clinical electrophysiology & visual Abnormalities in Man Download in pdf format
19. Reading and Object Recognition Download in pdf format
20. Comparing Different Theories of Vision

GLOSSARY

STANDARDIZED HUMAN EYE

STANDARDIZED ANIMAL NEURON

APPENDICES ( to be re-prioritized)

A. Photoexcitation/De-excitation Equation
B. Activa, a biological or semiconductor amplifier
C. Neural Modulation
D. The Visual Signal Path in Limulus
E. Tabulation of Spectral Data
F. Extraction & Characterization of the Chromophores--Rhodonine
G. Squid axon modeling and experiments
H. The Reversible thermodynamics of the Nervous System
J. The Spectral Response of the Animal Visual System
K. The Photodetection System of the Scallop, Pecten
L. A Standard Eye for Research in human vision
M. A Standard Neuron for Research
N. Areas of profitable research collaboration and experimentation

Z. Color Constancy as a phenomenon of adaptation

A complete 3 Level Table of Contents is available and may be downloaded as a portable document file (.pdf)

A PREFACE and SYNOPSIS are also available on this site.

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