Description
This book is an overview of primary sensory maps of vertebrates, characterized by continuous and discrete properties. The eight primary sensory maps of vertebrates have unique features and use distinct molecular cues, cell cycle exit, and activity combinations during development, regeneration, and plasticity. As an introduction and overview, the book provides a short overview for all eight sensory senses and presents through evolution and gene regulatory networks, the molecular cues needed for sensory processing. Independent contributions are included for olfactory, vision, trigeminal, taste, vestibular, auditory, lateral line, and electroreception.
Table of Contents
Ch1
The Senses: perspectives from brain, sensory ganglia, and sensory cell development in vertebrates
Bernd Fritzsch,
Karen Elliott Thompson
Ch2
Olfaction - Development of the olfactory system: from sensory neurons to cortical projections
Takeshi Imai
Ch3
Vision and retina information processing: from opsins to the visual cortex.
Paul R Martin,
Bernd Fritzsch
Ch4
Trigeminal projections: how to cross or not the multisensory projections.
Bernd Fritzsch
Ch5
Taste buds explained: from taste sensing to taste processing in the forbrain.
Stephen D Roper,
Robin F Krimm,
Bernd Fritzsch
Ch6
Assembly and functional organization of the vestibular system
Karen L. Elliott1
Hans Straka2
Ch7
Morphological and Molecular Ontogeny of the Auditory System
Jeremy S. Duncan,
Sydney N. Sheltz-Kempf,
Karen L. Elliott
Ch8
Lateral line input to ‘almost’ all vertebrates shares a common organization with different distinct connections.
Jacob Engelmann,
Bernd Fritzsch
Ch9
Electroreception depends on hair cell-derived senses in some vertebrates
Sarah Nicola Jung,
Valerie Lucks,
Karen L Elliott,
Jacob Engelmann,
Bernd Fritzsch
Ch10
An integrated perspective of commonalities and differences across sensory receptors and their distinct central inputs
Karen L Elliott,
Bernd Sokolowski,
Ebenezer N. Yamoah,
Bernd Fritzsch
