{"product_id":"biology-of-sensory-systems-9780470518625","title":"Biology of Sensory Systems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince publication of the first edition, huge developments have taken place in sensory biology research and new insights have been provided in particular by molecular biology. These show the similarities in the molecular architecture and in the physiology of sensory cells across species and across sensory modality and often indicate a common ancestry dating back over half a billion years.  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiology of Sensory Systems\u003c\/i\u003ehas thus been completely revised and takes a molecular, evolutionary and comparative approach, providing an overview of sensory systems in vertebrates, invertebrates and prokaryotes, with a strong focus on human senses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten by a renowned author with extensive teaching experience, the book covers, in six parts, the general features of sensory systems, the mechanosenses, the chemosenses, the senses which detect electromagnetic radiation, other sensory systems including pain, thermosensitivity and some of the minority senses and, finally, provides an outline\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to Second Edition.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to First Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: PRELIMINARIES.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: Elements.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Allosteric Effectors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Membranes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Membrane Signalling Systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Channels and Gates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: Membranes, Action Potentials, Synapses.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 The Measurement of Resting Potentials.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 The Ionic Bases of Resting Potentials.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Electrotonic Potentials and Cable Conduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Receptor and Generator Potentials.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Sensory Adaptation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Action Potentials.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.7 Synapses and Synaptic Transmission.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.8 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: General Features of Sensory Systems.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Classification of the Senses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Modality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Adaptation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Receptive Fields.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Maps of Sensory Surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7 Hierarchical and Parallel Design.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8 Feature Extraction and Trigger Stimuli.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.9 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 3.1 Hermann von Helmholtz.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: Classification and Phylogeny.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Systematics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Classification into Six Kingdoms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Unicellularity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Multicellularity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Protostomes and Deuterostomes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Classification of the Metazoa.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.7 Evolution of Nervous Systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.8 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Genes, Genomics and Neurosensory Systems\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Comparative Genomics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Genomes and Neurosensory Systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 5.1 Nomenclature of Genes and Proteins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I: Self Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I: Notes, References and Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II: MECHANOSENSITIVITY\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: Mechanosensitivity of Cell Membranes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Mechanosensitive Channels in \u003ci\u003eE. coli.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Detection of Osmotic Swelling by Hypothalamic Cells in Mammals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7: Kinaesthesia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Kinaesthetic Mechanisms in Arthropods.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1.1 Stretch Receptors in Crustacean Muscle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Kinaesthetic Mechanisms in Mammals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8: Touch.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Mechanoreception in \u003ci\u003eCaenorhabditis\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eElegans.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Spiders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 Insects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Tactile Receptors in Mammalian Skin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 Cerebral Analysis of Touch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6 Plasticity of the Somaesthetic Cortex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9: Equilibrium and Hearing: The Uses of Hair Cells\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Anatomy and Physiology of Hair Cells.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Lateral Line Canals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Evolution of the Vertebrate Ear.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 9.1 Biophysics of Outer Hair Cells.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 9.2 Genetics and Deafness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10: Cerebral Analysis.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 The Mammalian Vestibular Pathway and Reflexes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 The Mammalian Auditory Pathway.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 The Avian Auditory Pathway and the Mapping of Auditory Space by the Barn Owl.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 The Mammalian Auditory Cortex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 The Bat Auditory System and Echolocation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6 The Human Auditory Cortex and Language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.7 Lateralization and the Neuroanatomy of Language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.8 Language and the \u003ci\u003eFOXP2\u003c\/i\u003e Gene.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.9 Callosectomy and After.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.10 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 10.1 Broca andWernicke.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II: Self Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II: Notes, References and Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III: CHEMOSENSITIVITY.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11: Chemosensitivity in Prokaryocytes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1 Chemosentivity in \u003ci\u003eE. coli.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12: Mammalian Chemo-Enteroreceptors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.1 Location of Mammalian Chemoreceptors for PaO\u003csub\u003e2\u003c\/sub\u003e and PaCO\u003csub\u003e2\u003c\/sub\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.2 Structure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.3 Physiology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.4 Biochemistry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.5 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 13: Gustation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.1 Gustation in Insects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.2 Gustation in Mammals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.3 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 14: Olfaction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.1 Insect Olfactory Systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.2 Mammalian Olfactory Systems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.3 The Vertebrate Vomeronasal Organ (VNO) and Pheromones.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.4 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III: Self Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III: Notes, References and Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV: PHOTOSENSITIVITY.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox I4.1 Bacteriorhodopsin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 15: Invertebrate Vision.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.1 Designs of Invertebrate Eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.2 Examples of Invertebrate Eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.3 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 15.1 The Evolution of Opsins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 15.2 Early Genetics of Eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 16: The Human Eye.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.1 Anatomy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.2 Embryology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.3 Detailed Anatomy and Physiology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.4 Movements of the Eyeball.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.5 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 16.1 Genetics of Cataract.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 17: The Retina.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17.1 Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17.2 Retina.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17.3 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 18: Visual Pathways and Cortices.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18.1 Visual Pathways into the Brain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18.2 Primary Visual Cortex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18.3 Extrastriate Cortices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18.4 Face Recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18.5 Prosopagnosia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18.6 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 18.1 The Reality of Cortical Columns.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBox 18.2 Blindsight.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 19: Other Vertebrate Visual Systems.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.1 Visual Pigments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.2 Photoreceptors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.3 Tapeta.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.4 Retinae.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.5 Dioptric Apparatus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.6 Median Eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.7 Visual Pathways.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.8 Visual Centres in the Brain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.9 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart IV: Self Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart IV: Notes, References and Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART V: OTHER SENSES\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 20: Thermosensitivity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.1 Molecular Biology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.2 Poikilotherms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.3 Homeotherms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.4 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 21: Minority Senses.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.1 Infrared Radiation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.2 Polarized Light.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.3 Electric Fields.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.4 Magnetic Fields.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.5 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 22: Pain.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.1 The Biological Significance of Pain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.2 Neurophysiology of Pain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.3 Neuropharmacology of Pain Pathways.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.4 Referred Pain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.5 Gate Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.6 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart V: Self Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart V: Notes, References and Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART VI: CODA\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 23: Summing Up.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.1 Molecular Themes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.2 Cellular Themes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.3 Sense Organs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.4 Central Analysers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.5 Homeostasis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.6 Different Sensory Worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.7 From Abiotic to Biotic: Communication.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.8 From Biotic to Social Communication: Mirror Neurons.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23.9 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 24: Philosophical Postscript.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24.1 Descartes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24.2 Qualia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24.3 Tabula Rasa?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24.4 Epigenetic Epistemology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24.5 Evolutionary Epistemology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24.6 Beyond Descartes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24.7 Concluding Remarks.\u003c\/p\u003e 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