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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Sensory Systems

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Sensory Systems

Sensory systems allow us to see, touch, taste, and smell the world around us – in short, they allow us to interact meaningfully with our environments. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Sensory Systems provides a comprehensive scholarly overview of the visual, auditory, somatosensory, vestibular, olfactory, and gustatory systems, and considers the biological adaptations that shape various sensory processes across species. Authored by top scholars across the globe, the volume includes articles on diverse topics such as mammalian optics, texture discrimination, olfactory coding, and infrared sensing in snakes.

Designed to keep scholars, researchers, and practitioners up-to-date with research in the field of sensory systems, this peer-reviewed volume reviews the essential scholarship and foundational questions of this rich field of neuroscience research. All articles in this volume also appear online as part of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience.

Volume Editor

W. Martin Usrey, University of California­­–Davis

Topics

Neuroendocrinology

Neuroimmunology

Behavioral Neuroendocrinology

Autonomic Regulation

Stress and the Brain

Regulation of Thirst and Water Balance

Regulation of Food Intake and Body Weight

Biological Rhythms and Sleep

 

Articles

Active Electroreception in Weakly Electric Fish (Angel Ariel Caputi)
Aging and Olfaction (Richard L. Doty)
Anatomical Organization and Coding in the Gustatory System: A Functional Perspective (Susan P. Travers, Alan C. Spector)
Annelid Vision (Cynthia M. Harley, Mark K. Asplen)
Auditory Hair Cells and Sensory Transduction (Jeffrey R. Holt, Gwenaëlle S.G. Géléoc)
Auditory Mechanisms of Echolocation in Bats (Cynthia F. Moss)
Auditory Processing in the Aging Brain (Gregg Recanzone)
Biosonar and Sound Localization in Dolphins (Paul E. Nachtigall)
Central Auditory Processing (Josef P. Rauschecker)
Cephalopod Olfaction (Anna Di Cosmo, Gianluca Polese)
Chemoreception in Fishes (Hiroshi Ueda)
Cortical Processing of Odorants (Yaniv Cohen, Emmanuelle Courtiol, Regina M. Sullivan, Donald A. Wilson)
Crustacean Olfaction (Charles Derby, Manfred Schmidt)
Crustacean Visual Circuits Underlying Behavior (Daniel Tomsic, Julieta Sztarker)
Drosophila Olfaction (Quentin Gaudry, Jonathan Schenk)
Evolution, Homology, Cell Classification, and Parallel Processing for Vision (W. Martin Usrey, S. Murray Sherman)
Evolution of Neocortex for Sensory Processing (Jon H. Kaas)
The Functional Organization of Vertebrate Retinal Circuits for Vision (Tom Baden, Timm Schubert, Philipp Berens, Thomas Euler)
General Principles for Sensory Coding (Tatyana O. Sharpee)
Genetics and Evolution of Color Vision in Primates (Gerald H. Jacobs)
Insect Color Vision (Natalie Hempel de Ibarra, Misha Vorobyev)
Insect Navigation: Neural Basis to Behavior (Stanley Heinze)
Invertebrate Nociception (Nathaniel J. Himmel, Atit A. Patel, Daniel N. Cox)
Leech Mechanosensation (Brian D. Burrell)
Mammalian Visual System Organization (Farran Briggs)
Molecular Biology of Vertebrate Olfactory Receptors and Circuits (Richard P. Tucker, Qizhi Gong)
Motion Processing in Primates (Tyler S. Manning, Kenneth H. Britten)
Multisensory Integration and the Perception of Self-Motion (Kathleen E. Cullen)
Navigation Towards the Source through Chemosensory Strategies and Mechanisms (Yaniv Cohen)
Neural Mechanisms for Odor-Guided Behavior (Giuliano Gaeta, Regina M. Sullivan, Donald A. Wilson)
Neural Mechanisms of Tactile Texture Perception (Justin D. Lieber, Sliman J. Bensmaia)
Neural Mechanisms of Tinnitus (Adam Hockley, Susan E. Shore)
Neural Population Coding of Natural Sounds in Non-Flying Mammals (Israel Nelken)
Neural Processing of Pain and Itch (Taylor Follansbee, Mirela Iodi Carstens, E. Carstens)
Neural Processing of Taste Information (Alfredo Fontanini, Lindsey Czarnecki)
Neurobiology of Auditory Hallucinations (Judith M. Ford, Holly K. Hamilton, Alison Boos)
Nociceptors and Chronic Pain (Edgar T. Walters)
Olfactory Perception (Daniel W. Wesson, Sang Eun Ryu, Hillary L. Cansler)
Pain and its Modulation (Asaf Keller)
Phantom Limbs and Brain Plasticity in Amputees (Tamar Makin, London Plasticity Lab)
Physiology of Color Vision in Primates (Robert Shapley)
Plasticity of Information Processing in the Auditory System (Andrew J. King)
The Processing of Hydrodynamic Stimuli with the Fish Lateral Line System (Joachim Mogdans)
Raptor Vision (Mindaugas Mitkus, Simon Potier, Graham R. Martin, Olivier Duriez, Almut Kelber)
Retinal Mechanisms for Motion Detection (Mathew T. Summers, Malak El Quessny, Marla B. Feller)
Sensing Polarized Light in Insects (Thomas F. Mathejczyk, Mathias F. Wernet)
Sensing the Environment with Whiskers (Mathew H. Evans, Michaela S.E. Loft, Dario Campagner, Rasmus S. Petersen)
The Sensory World of the Naked Mole-Rat (Thomas J. Park)
Single Neuron Computational Modeling (Yeonjoo Yoo, Fabrizio Gabbiani)
Somatosensory Specializations in Mammals (Jon H. Kaas)
Somatosensory System Organization in Mammals and Response to Spinal Injury (Corinna Darian-Smith, Karen Fisher)
Stereopsis and Depth Perception (Andrew J. Parker)
Stomatopod Vision (Thomas W. Cronin, N. Justin Marshall, Roy L. Caldwell)
Synaptic Properties of Sensory Thalamus (Martha E. Bickford)
Synesthesia and Sensory Processing (Louisa J. Rinaldi)
Taste Buds and Gustatory Transduction: A Functional Perspective (Alan C. Spector, Susan P. Travers)
Thalamocortical Interactions for Sensory Processing (Jose M. Alonso, Harvey A. Swadlow)
Vision and Art (Bevil R. Conway)
Visual Attention (Sabine Kastner, Timothy J. Buschman)
Visual Shape and Object Perception (Anitha Pasupathy, Yasmine El-Shamayleh, Dina V. Popovkina)