Includes index

sn. 1. Focusing of an image on the retina ; 1. Optics ; 2. Optical aberrations and wavefront sensing ; 3. Accommodation -- sn. 2. Physiology of optical media ; 4. Cornea and sclera ; 5. The lens ; 6. Vitreous -- sn. 3. Direction of gaze ; 7. The extraocular muscles ; 8. Neural control of eye movements ; 9. Three-dimensional eye movements: kinematics, control, and perceptual consequences -- sn. 4. Nutrition of the eye ; 10. Production and flow of aqueous humor ; 11. Ocular circulation ; 12. Metabolic interactions between neurons and glial cells ; 13. The function of the retinal pigment epithelium ; sn. 5. Protection of the eye ; 14. Functions of the orbit and eyelids ; 15. Formation and function of the tear film ; 16. Sensory innervation of the eye ; 17. Outward-directed transport ; sn. 6. Photoreception ; 18. Biochemical cascade of phototransduction ; 19. Photoresponses of rods and cones ; 20. Light adaptation in photoreceptors ; sn. 7. Visual processing in the retina ; 21. The synaptic organization of the retina ; 22. Signal processing in the outer retina ; 23. Visual processing in the inner retina ; 24. Electroretinogram -- sn. 8. Non-perceptive vision ; 25. Regulation of light through the pupil ; 26. Ganglion-cell photoreceptors -- sn. 9. Visual processing in the brain ; 27. Overview of the central visual pathways ; 28. Optic nerve ; 29. Processing in the lateral geniculate nucleus ; 30. Primary visual cortex ; 31. Extrastriate visual cortex -- sn. 10. Visual perception ; 32. Visual processing of spatial form ; 33. Visual acuity ; 34. Color vision ; 35. The visual field ; 36. Binocular vision ; 37. Temporal properties of vision -- sn. 11. Development and deprivation of vision ; 38. Development of vision in infancy ; 39. Development of retinogeniculate projections ; 40. Developmental visual deprivation ; 41. The effects of visual deprivation after infancy