By John L. Barbur (auth.), Jon G. Robbins, Mustafa B. A. Djamgoz, Anthony Taylor (eds.)
I were requested to write down a short foreword to this quantity honoring Hisako Ikeda, supplying a overview of the accomplishments in our box over the last 4 many years, while Hisako was once an lively player. This i'm overjoyed to do. it's been a most fun time in imaginative and prescient examine and Hisako has been correct in the midst of a lot of the thrill, publishing on a wide selection of issues and delivering a lot new info and plenty of new insights. Hisako's learn occupation will be divided by way of many years into 4 particularly targeted components of inquiry. within the Fifties, as a scholar in Japan, her examine pursuits have been psychophysical in nature, and he or she was once focused on visible illusions, figural aftereffects, and movement detec tion. within the Sixties, after her circulation to London, she begun electrophysiological reports. a lot of her paintings within the Sixties was once concerned about the electroretinogram (ERG), its elements, and using this electric reaction for comparing spectral sensitivities of the attention and retinal degenerations. This paintings represented the start of her electrodiagnostic scientific paintings, which persisted until eventually her retirement.
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