RSSThe human visual system
Comments (0) There is a lot of information about the human visual system on the internet. This post will point you to some of the most interesting and innovating websites. Please, feel free to comment or add some links.
Perhaps the most comprehensive site about the human eye is Webvision from the University of Utah. The retina is covered in considerable depth (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, retinal circuits); see for example the very well written text “How the retina works” (pdf); published in American Scientist (2003) by one of the authors. The website is also bundled as an electronic book, which is perhaps easier to consult via the pubMed website.
At the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam you can find a website that is entirely devoted to the anatomy of the human eye with very nice and annotated pictures (language is Dutch). The anatomy of the eye is also very nicely illustrated in a video lecture from Ophtobook.com.
The human visual cortex is described in extenso in the article of Grill-Spector & Malach (2004) in the Annual Review of Neuroscience. You can find a full-text copy of the article on the website of the first author (http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~kalanit/publications.htm on 14-04-2009).
Of course, you can also read the online book “Eye, brain and vision” from the Nobel prize winner David Hubel. Here, you will find a in-depth account of the visual pathway. A more recent approach is described by Peter Lennie. You can download a full-text copy of his important articles from his website (1998 - 2003)
The Journal of Vision is an online, free access journal that is entirely dedicated to research about vision. All articles are full-text consultable. This is, of course, a very specialised journal. Lots of pictures about human vision can be found at ViperLib.
More information about the optics of the eye can be found at the HyperPhysics website of the George State Universiy.
