Eye, Brain and Vision (Scientific American Library series)

First edition, first printing.  viii, 242pp, profusely illustrated in text, many in full colour.  Mustard coloured cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth very slightly rubbed at spine ends, with traces of dustiness along the upper text block edge else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.  Glossy, illustrated dust wrapper, slightly rubbed on corners and spine tips.

When humans perceive the world around them, more than 100 million receptors in the retina are bombarded with photons of light.  The receptors translate the light energy into electrical signals which are then transmitted to the brain.  But how does the brain make sense of these signals and how does it process the staggering influx of information to a coherent image rich in form, colour, depth and movement?  Hubel, a researcher in the optics and vision field for over thirty years, explains, considering the effects of certain scenarios on the brain such as deprivation of light and loss of vision.