Models of Neural Networks IV: Early Vision and Attention

This volume, with chapters by leading researchers in the field, is dev oted to early vision and attention, that is, to the first stages of vi sual information processing. John Hertz, who has extensive experience in both computational and experimental neuroscience, provides a theore tical introduction to neural modeling. John Van Opstal explains how th e gaze is controlled and presents a novel theory incorporating recent experimental results. Klaus Funke and his colleagues describe the anat omy, physiology, functional relations, and ensuing response properties of the first stages in visual information processing; they provide on e of the most comprehensive reviews available at the moment.