Published March, 2012
By H.H. Kornhuber
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The function of the vestibular system is not as obvious as those of vision, hearing, touch or smell. It is probably for this reason that the vestibular sense was not discovered until the nineteenth century and that clinicians have continued to playa major role in basic vestibular research right up to the present.

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Published February, 2012
By M.F. Land, S.B. Laughlin, D.R. Nassel, N.J. Strausfeld and T.H. Waterman
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Thus, Wiedemann's discovery, for instance, that the visual cells in each ommatidium of the dipterans have differing fields of vision has revived the question as to what the optical properties of individual visual cells, and the complete ommatidium, might be and how neighboring ommatidia interact.

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Published December, 2011
By D. Barker, C.C. Hunt and A.K. McIntyre
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This section will consider the structure and function of muscle receptors, as well as the central nervous system mechanisms with which they are concerned. With 99 Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . With 21 Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Published December, 2011
By H.H. Kornhuber
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The details of the receptor mechanism are not yet fully understood for any sensory system. However, sufficient data are available (for the vestibular system and for other systems) to permit meaningful tracking of the sensory messages through the nervous system and via conscious experience.

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Published December, 2011
By Ainsley Iggo
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The waterproof sensory sheet covering the mammalian body has a rich afferent innervation which provides an abundance of complex information for use by the central nervous system often in conjunction with information from receptors in the joints.

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Published December, 2011
By Lloyd M. Beidler
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Olfaction is involved intimately in two of the most basic functions of animals: food intake and reproduction.

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Published November, 2011
By H. Autrum, L.S. Goodman, J.B. Messenger and R. Wehner
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" The Editorial Board and the editors hope that this golden mean has been achieved: An absorbing, thorough, but nevertheless exemplary presentation should, with the aid of relevant examples, enable the reader to become accustomed with the numerous facets of the sensory system without sacrificing an overview of the subject.

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Published November, 2011
By R. Jung, H. Autrum, N. J. Strausfeld, P. O. Bishop, V. Braitenberg, K. L. Chow, R. L. De Valois, R. B. Freeman, W. A. van de Grind, O.-J. Grüsser, U. Grüsser-Cornehls, W. R. Levick, H.-U. Lunkenheimer, D. M. MacKay, M. Snyder, J. Stone and I. Thomas
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The present volume covers the physiology of the visual system beyond the optic nerve. These investigations began in the periphery: HARTLINE'S pioneering experiments on single visual elements of Limulus in 1932 started a successful period of neuronal recordings which ascended from the retina to the highest centres in the visual brain.

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Published November, 2011
By M.E. Wigand, H. Davis, W.D. Keidel, E. de Boer, W. Connor, J.J. Eggermont, R. Galambos, C.D. Geisler, G.M. Gerken, H.E. von Gierke, C.S. Hallpike, E.Jr. Hawkins, S.A. Hillyard, D.E. Parker, T.W. Picton, W. Rudmose, F.B. Simmons, G. Stange, C.R. Steele, J. Tonndorf and F. Zöllner
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Although WITTMAACK'S explanation, which was frequently invoked in such reports, does no longer appear tenable, such apical-turn lesions could conceivably be caused by bone conduction components of high-intensity noise in the sense of BEKESY (1948).

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Published November, 2011
By Werner R. Loewenstein
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