New Book Announcement

[Gustavo Deco]

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT


"Computational Neuroscience of Vision"


Edmund T. Rolls
University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology

and
Gustavo Deco
Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany





Oxford University Press, 2002
588 pages, numerous figures, 238X168mm
ISBN 0-19-852489-7 Hardback
ISBN 0-19-852488-9 Paperback


This exciting new book describes visual information processing in the
brain. The book focusses on the visual information processing and
computational operations in the visual system that lead to
representations of objects in the brain, and on the mechanisms that
underlie attentional processes. In addition to visual processing, it
also considers how visual inputs reach and are involved in the
computations underlying a wide range of behaviour, including short
term memory, long term memory and emotion, thus providing a foundation
for understanding the operation of a number of different brain
systems. This fascinating book will be of value to all those
interested in understanding how the brain works, and in understanding
vision, attention, memory, emotion, motivation and action. The book
combines a neurocomputational approach with neurophysiological,
neuropsychological, and neuroimaging approaches.

Readership: Neuroscientists, psychologists, and neuropsychologists
interested in vision. Computational neuroscientists. Vision
scientists.

Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
2 The primary visual cortex
3 Extrastriate visual areas
4 The parietal cortex
5 Inferior temporal cortical visual areas
6 Visual attentional mechanisms
7 Neural network models
8 Models of invariant object recognition
9 The cortical neurodynamics of visual attention - a model
10 Visual search: Attentional neurodynamics at work
11 A computational approach to the neuropsychology of visual attention
12 Outputs of visual processing
13 Principles and conclusions
Appendix A. Introduction to linear algebra for neural networks
Appendix B. Information theory
References
Index

The book can be ordered directly from Oxford University Press,
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-852488-9, and is available in bookshops.
Updates to the publications cited are available at www.cns.ox.ac.uk