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Contributions to Sensory Physiology: Volume 2 presents the scientific research on the sensory systems. It discusses the physiological basis of sensation. It addresses the evolution of vertebrate hearing. Some of the topics covered in the book are the origins of neocortex; the differentiation of sensory thalamo-cortical systems in early phases of mammal evolution; the predominance of the auditory system in carnivore; effects of brain stem lesions on the normal prepotency of sound; the logarithmic intensity function of single peripheral units; and sensory neocortex and the evolution of intellig.
Front Cover; Contributions to Sensory Physiology; Copyright Page; List of Contributors; Preface; Table of Contents; Contents of Volume 1; Chapter 1. The Evolution of Vertebrate Hearing; I. INTRODUCTION; II. SOUND; III. THE LATERAL LINE; IV. THE LABYRINTH; V. THE SWIM BLADDER; VI. THE WEBERIAN APPARATUS AND OTHER ADAPTATIONS; VII. CAN FISH HEAR?; VIII. ON TO LAND: THE AMPHIBIA; IX. THE INNER EAR AND HEARING IN THE FROG; X. SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. The Sensory Neocortex; I. ORIGINS OF NEOCORTEX
II. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF SENSORY THALAMO-CORTICAL SYSTEMS IN EARLY PHASES OF MAMMAL EVOLUTIONIII. THE PREDOMINANCE OF THE AUDITORY SYSTEM IN CARNIVORES; IV. THE AUDITORY CORTEX AND THE LOWER CENTERS OF THE AUDITORY PATHWAY; V. THE AUDITORY CORTEX AND MEMORY; VI. SENSORY NEOCORTEX AND THE EVOLUTION OF INTELLIGENCE; REFERENCES; Chapter 3. Organization of Somatic Central Projections; I. INTRODUCTION; II. LEMNISCAL VERSUS EXTRALEMNISCAL PROJECTIONS; III. STRUCTURES SHOWING ESSENTIALLY EXTRALEMNISCAL PROPERTIES; IV. LEMNISCAL AND EXTRALEMNISCAL CONVERGENCE IN PRIMARY AREAS
v. CONCLUDING REMARKS: ROLE IN BEHAVIOR OF THE SOMATIC RECEIVING REGIONSREFERENCES; Chapter 4. Electrical Responses of the Nervous System and Subjective Scales of Intensity; I. INTRODUCTION; II. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; III. HUMAN SOMESTHETIC INTENSITY FUNCTIONS; IV. CURRENT ISSUES CONCERNING THE APPRECIATION OF INTENSITY; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. Gustatory Response as a Temperature-Dependent Process; I. INTRODUCTION; II. GUSTATORY NERVE RESPONSE; III. GUSTATORY NERVE RESPONSE TO STIMULI OF VARYING TEMPERATURES
IV. THERMAL MESSAGES CARRIED BY THE CHORDA TYMPANI AND THE GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL AND LINGUAL NERVESV. BIMODAL RESPONSE OF TASTE UNITS; VI. VARIATIONS IN THE GUSTATORY RESPONSE PRODUCED BY TEMPERATURE CHANGE; VII. GUSTATORY NERVE RESPONSE IN THE FROG; VIII. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Author Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.