Research Links

Hierarchical View of the Visual Brain

http://nanonline.org/nandistance/mtbi/ClinNeuro/agnosia.html
A summary of agnosia with related brain regions.

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/cole1
A brief biography of Alexander Luria. Includes a listing of his works.

Anatomy of the Eye and Retina

http://www.nei.nih.gov/publications/glossary.htm
A glossary of visual terms.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/bigeye.html
Basic summary of the eye and vision with great links and fun activities.

http://www.cf.ac.uk/biosi/staff/jacob/teaching/sensory/vision.html
A basic summary of vision from the eye to lower cortical visual centers.

http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/eyeret.html
Great review of the anatomy of the eye and the retina in particular.

http://soma.npa.uiuc.edu/courses/bio303/Ch11.html
Extensive course notes including several excellent diagrams of the eye, its cells, and higher areas.

http://retina.anatomy.upenn.edu/~lance/retina/retina.html
A good look at the retina.

http://www.win.net/sporgy/retin.html
A beautiful, artistic representation of the retina.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/retina.html
A look at the physics of the retinal cells.

http://webvision.med.utah.edu/photo1.html
Photoreceptors and the transduction of light (diagrams and Quicktime movies).

http://www.science.wayne.edu/~bio340/StudentPages/Yawney/photoreceptor.htm
Photoreceptor transduction of light.

http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/aprjun98/apr2098/20mount.html
A Johns Hopkins University newspaper article honoring Vernon Mountcastle for winning a National Academy of Sciences award.

http://www.nero.uni-bonn.de/ri/figures/joerg2a.html
Receptive field schematic of a ganglion cell in relation to photoreceptors.

http://www.aston.ac.uk/tlt/perception/receptive/whatis.htm
Receptive field tutorial.

http://webvision.med.utah.edu/GCPHYS1.HTM
An encyclopedic look at retinal ganglion cells.

http://web.mit.edu/gabby/www/illusions/Lateral_Inhibition.htm
Lateral inhibition: neural basis and Mach bands.

http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/cenvis.html
The central visual pathways.

Visual Pathways

http://www-psychology.concordia.ca/department/350/VisionRev/VR.htm#paths
Well-done diagrams of the visual pathways, particularly the magno and parvo pathways, from the retina to the visual cortex.

http://www.yorku.ca/eye/blndspot.htm
A brief description and demonstration of the optic disc and blind spot.

http://www.guidedogs.com.au/vision/cortical_blindness2.htm
Anatomical and graphical guide of where and how a lesion will produce specific effects.

Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN)

http://songweaver.com/brain/index.html
A basic look at the thalamus. Includes a diagram depicting the thalamus in relation to the rest of the brain.

http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/home/George_Mather/Linked%20Pages/Physiol/LGN.html
A summary of the LGN and its projections from the retina.

http://www.cquest.utoronto.ca/psych/psy280f/ch4/lgnToV1.html
Basic diagram of the LGN's projections to the primary visual cortex.

Vision in the Cortex

http://www.benbest.com/science/anatmind/anatmd5.html
A look at brain organization with an extensive look at vision.

http://www.robotbugs.com/robotbugs/natural/ch2/ch2d.htm
The primary visual cortex.

http://webvision.med.utah.edu/VisualCortex.html
A complete presentation of the primary visual cortex.

http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/home/George_Mather/Linked%20Pages/Physiol/Cortex.html
Visual cortex.

http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1981/hubel-autobio.html
Information on David Hubel (Nobel prize winner 1981) from the Nobel e-Museum.

http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1981/wiesel-autobio.html
Information on Torsten Wiesel (Nobel prize winner 1981) from the Nobel e-Museum.

http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/V/VisualProcessing.html
Visual pathways. Includes a good diagram of Hubel and Wiesel's experiment.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/mondrian/
A small collection of Piet Mondrian's work.

http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/LONWEB/experiments/land.html
An online experiment of color constancy and the natural and void conditions.

http://www.achromat.org/
An organization dedicated to achromatopsia.

http://herkules.rrze.uni-erlangen.de:81/~sz0722/achromat/Complete-achromat.html
A personal account by a scientist with achromatopsia.

http://www.slc.edu/~mwhichar/magno.html
An essay on the segregation of the magnocellular and parvocellular pathways.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~zimmons/motion/page4.html
Motion perception.

http://www.hhmi.org/senses/b/b210.htm
The motion perception pathway and symptoms related to motion blindness.

http://hebb.cog.jhu.edu/courses/315/zeki3+4.jpg
Semir Zeki's imaging experiment demonstrating V5 as used in motion perception.

http://www.ssc.mhie.ac.uk/VI_Video/N_VIDEO/VINEEDS/VIEFFECT/MoveImg.htm
Deficits of the motion perception system.

http://www-psychology.concordia.ca/SCOL398/L6_398/L6_398Thr.html
A brief outline of Newsome's monkey V5 and motion perception studies.

http://www.sfn.org/briefings/visual_development.html
A description of ocular dominance columns and development.

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/calvin
An explanation of cortical columnar organization.

Other Sites of Interest

http://webvision.med.utah.edu/Color.html
A definitive look at color vision and the processes behind it, from the retina to high-level cortex.

http://psych.colorado.edu/~dhuber/p2145/low_vision.html
An outline on low-level vision with great diagrams of V3, V4, and V5.

http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~image529/TA529/Image529_99/projects97/31_Khurana/Visualcortex.html
A basic overview of the visual cortex with links to related information.

http://www.yorku.ca/eye/
Web-published book on visual perception.