Table of Contents

Foreword by V. S. Ramachandran
Introduction: Filling-In: More Than Meets the Eye, Peter De Weerd and Luiz Pessoa
PART I: Fast-Acting Filling-In in Normal Vision
1: Filling-In the Forms: Surface and Boundary Interactions in the Visual Cortex, Stephen Grossberg, Boston University
2: Contextual Shape Processing in the Human Visual Cortex: Beginning to Fill-In the Blanks, Janine Mendola, West Virginia University School of Medicine
3: Surface Completion: Psychophysical and Neurophysiological Studies of Brightness, Andrew Rossi, National Institute of Mental Health, and Michael Paradiso, Brown University
4: Mechanisms of Surface Completion: Perceptual Filling-In of Texture, Lothar Spillman, Freiburg University, Germany, and Peter De Weerd
5: Searching for the Neural Mechanism of Color Filling-In, Rudiger von Heydt, Howard Friedman, and Hong Zhou, all at Johns Hopkins University
6: Effects of Modal Versus Amodal Completion Upon Visual Attention: A Function for Filling-In?, Greg Davis, Birkbeck College, UK, and Jon Driver, University College, London, UK)
7: Completion Phenomena in Vision: A Computational Approach, Heiko Neumann, Ulm University, Germany
PART II: From Permanent Scotomas to Cortical Reorganization
8: Completion Through a Permanent Scotoma: First Interpolation Across the Blind Spot and the Processing of Occlusion, Mario Fiorani, Leticia de Oliveira, Eliane Volchan, Ricardo Gattass, all at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Carlos Eduardo Rocha-Miranda, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and Luiz Pessoa
9: The Reactivation and Reorganization of Retinotopic Maps in the Visual Cortex of Adult Mammals After Retinal and Cortical Lesions, John H. Kaas, Christine E. Collins, both at Vanderbilt University, and Yuzo M. Chino, University of Houston
10: The Blind Leading the Mind: Pathological Completion in Hemianopia and Spatial Neglect, Jason B. Mattingly, University of Melbourne, Australia, and R. Walker, University of London, UK
Part III: Long-Term Cortical Remapping
11: Plasticity of the Human Auditory Cortex, Christo Pantev, University of Toronto, Nathan Weisz, Michael Schulte, both at the University of Konstanz, Germany, and Thomas Elbert, University of Munster, Germany
12: Plasticity in Adult M1 During Motor Skill Learning, Julien Doyon, University of Montreal, and Leslie G. Ungerleider, National Institute of Mental Health
13: Cortical Reorganization and the Rehabilitation of Movement by CI Therapy After Neurologic Injury, Victor M. Mark and Edward Taub, both at the University of Alabama, Birmingham
14: Conclusion: Contributions of Inhibitory Mechanisms to Perceptual Completion and Cortical Reorganization, Liisa A. Tremere, Raphael Pinaud, both at the University of Arizona, and Peter De Weerd

Reviews

This book is a pleasure to read. It is always a delight to come across a book that is unique, well written and well edited. The editors are to be congratulated on their fine and valuable contribution to the field of perceptual remapping and cortical reorganization. Doody's Journal