Abstract
Professor Brindley, an acknowledged English expert on visual physiology, has revised his little book that appeared first in 1960. format is essentially unchanged: more than half of the book is still devoted to the author's particular interest in the psychophysiology of vision. In the preface, the author acknowledges that he has purposely stressed his own contributions in order to satisfy his obligation to the reader, even if intentional omission of certain contributions by others appears idiosyncratic. first three chapters summarize photochemical processes in the retina, new findings on the origin of the ERG (electroretinogram) in vertebrates, and the function of retinal cells, particularly horizontal and amacrine cells, as described several years ago in Necturus (the mud puppy) by Dowling and co-workers. fourth chapter, The Central Pathways of Vision, devotes as much space to discussions of cortically evoked phosphenes in man as it does to the exciting findings
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