| PrintNumber | ErrorLocation | Error | Correction | DateAdded |
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| 1 | pviii | First Printing April 2010 | TBD | 5/13/2010 |
| 1 | p21 | A year of psychoanalysis during my last year of med school had not helped, although it contributed to my later decision that psychiatry, at least as it was then being practiced in Boston, was not something I wanted to pursue. | A year of psychoanalysis during my last year of med school had not helped, although it contributed to my decision that psychiatry, at least as it was then being practiced in Boston, was not something I wanted to pursue. | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p38 | The students and fellows in Katz’s domain (about a half-dozen of us in total) were in labs along a short corridor on the floor that included Katz’s lab at one end, as well as Paintin’s supply room and a machine shop. | The students and fellows in Katz’s domain (about a half-dozen of us in total) were in labs along a short corridor on the floor that included Katz’s lab at one end, as well as Paintin’s supply room and a machine and electronics shop. | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p40 | Katz had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine the year before for his fundamental series of discoveries about synaptic transmission, and this line of research using electrophysiology and complementary electron microscopical methods seemed almost complete after more than 20 years. | Katz had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine the year before for his fundamental series of discoveries and this line of research using electrophysiology and complementary electron microscopical methods seemed almost complete after more than 20 years. | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p42 | The result showed that the efficacy of neurotransmission could be either increased or decreased, depending on the nature of the preceding activity: | The results showed that the efficacy of neurotransmission could be either increased or decreased, depending on the nature of the preceding activity: | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p89 | Figure 6.1 caption: The labeled structures represent only a few of the surface landmarks that guide neuroscientists working on this complex structure; the internal organization of the brain is far more complex. |
The labeled structures represent only a few of the surface landmarks that guide neuroscientists working on this structure; the internal organization of the brain is far more complex. | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p90 | Figure 6.2 caption: Reprinted from Trends in Neuroscience 15 (1992): 362–368 with permission from Elsevier.) |
Reprinted from Trends in Neuroscience 15 (1992): 362–368 with permission from Elsevier. | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p90 | Applying the term modules to the brain has always been problematic. Many psychologists and mind–brain philosophers use it to refer... | Applying the term modules to the brain has always been problematic. Some psychologists and mind–brain philosophers use it to refer... | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p92 | These weren’t the most interesting or most talked-about cortical patterns—that prize went to the ocular dominance columns in the visual cortex (see Figure 6.2A). | These weren’t the most interesting or most talked-about patterns—that prize went to the ocular dominance columns in the visual cortex (see Figure 6.2A). | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p96 | ...take up reagents such as mitochondrial enzymes stains that reflect nerve cell metabolism. | ...take up reagents such as mitochondrial enzyme stains that reflect nerve cell metabolism. | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p112-113 | Even when they closed one eye for a year or more, the distribution of V1 neurons driven by one eye and the animals’ visual behavior tested through the reopened eye were indistinguishable from normal (Figure 7.5C). | Even when they closed one eye for a year or more, the distribution of V1 neurons driven by the normal eye and the animals’ visual behavior tested through the reopened eye were indistinguishable (Figure 7.5C). | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p131 | A case in point is Hubel and Wiesel’s magisterial retrospective published in 2006 called Brain and Visual Perception, a book that combines their key papers with commentaries on what they did and why they did it. | A case in point is Hubel and Wiesel’s magisterial retrospective published in 2005 called Brain and Visual Perception, a book that combines their key papers with commentaries on what they did and why they did it. | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p132 | An appreciation of Kuffler’s conservative philosophy might be one of the reasons why his protégés Hubel and Wiesel paid little attention to visual perception. | An appreciation of Kuffler’s conservative philosophy might be one of the reasons why his protégés Hubel and Wiesel paid relatively little attention to visual perception. | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p140 | Figure 8.9 caption: (After Purves, et al., 1999) |
(After Purves et al., 1999) | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p177 | To be useful, the perceptions of lightness/brightness elicited by luminance values and the colors elicited by spectral distributions must also be ordered in perceptual space according to the physical similarities and differences among objects and conditions in the world, however discrepant perceptions may be when compared to physical measurements. This pervasive parallelism of perception and physical reality based on operational success in a world that we can’t know directly makes it difficult to appreciate that what we see is not the world as it is, and that all perceptions are equally illusory. | To be useful, the perceptions of lightness/brightness elicited by luminance values and the colors elicited by spectral distributions must also be ordered in perceptual space according to the physical similarities and differences among objects and conditions in the world, however discrepant the perceptions when compared to physical measurements. This parallelism of perception and physical reality based on operational success in a world that we can’t know directly makes it difficult to appreciate that what we see is not the world as it is, and that all perceptions are equally illusory. | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p198 | Surely seeing these features for what they are in the image or the world would be the most logical way to relate perception to behavior, even though the inverse problem precludes direct specification of physical sources. | Surely seeing these features for what they are in the retinal image or the world would be the most logical way to relate perception to behavior, even though the inverse problem precludes direct specification of physical sources. | 4/29/2011 |
| 1 | p215 | The upshot is that any aperture will produce a bias in the frequency of directions experienced that depends on the shape of the frame. | The upshot is that any aperture will produce a bias in the frequency of retinal directions experienced that depends on the shape of the frame. | 4/29/2011 |