DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES
9.10 and 9.100 COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
SPRING SEMESTER 1999
Wednesday, February 24
Vision: Anatomy and Physiology
Janine Mendola, MGH-NMR Center
Required Reading for Undergraduates and Graduate Students
Kolb, B., and Whishaw, I.Q. (1996) Fundamentals of human
neuropsychology (4th ed.). New York: W.H. Freeman.
Chapter 6 (pp. 99-109) Organization of the Sensory Systems
Chapter 11 (pp. 243-251) The Occipital Lobes
Sereno, M.I., Dale, A.M., Reppas, J.B., Kwong, K.K., Belliveau, J.W.,
Brady, T.J., Rosen, B.R., and Tootell, R.B.H. (1995) Borders
of multiple visual areas in humans revealed by functional magnetic resonance
imaging. Science, 268, 889-893.
Tootell R.B., Hadjikhani N.K., Mendola J.D., Marrett S., Dale A.M.
(1998) From retinotopy to recogntion: fMRI in human visual
cortex. Trends in Cogntive Science, 2, 174-183.
Required Reading for Graduate Students (Recommended for Undergraduates)
Mason, C. and Kandel, E.R. (1991) Central visual pathways.
In: Principles of Neural Science, Third Edition, E.R. Kandel,
J.H. Schwartz, and T.M. Jessell (Eds.). Amsterdam: Elsevier,
pp. 420-439.
Ungerleider, L.G. and Haxby, J.V. (1994) 'What' and 'where' in
the human brain. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 4, 157-165.
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