February 18, 2016 – Palo Alto, CA – Non-profit publisher Annual Reviews has invited leading authorities to synthesize and analyze research across a broad range of disciplines for more than 85 years. It gives us great pleasure to announce the first volume of the Annual Review of Vision Science. This journal reviews progress in the field of vision science, integrating psychology, neuroscience, computer science, cell biology and genetics, and clinical medicine. A broad range of topics and techniques is covered, including optics, the retina, central visual processing, visual perception, eye movements, visual development, vision models, computer vision, and the mechanisms of visual disease, dysfunction, and sight restoration.
The Annual Review of Vision Science is co-edited by J. Anthony Movshon, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology at New York University, and Brian A. Wandell, faculty Professor and Director of Stanford University’s Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging. “The diversity of disciplines in vision science is reflected in the large and excellent collection of specialty journals, along with the many outlets for vision science in higher-profile general science journals,” said Professor Movshon. “The variety of journals, however, makes it hard to assemble a broad and integrated view of our field.”
Professor Wandell continued, “We are therefore proud to present the Annual Review of Vision Science. The journal aims to reflect the field’s crosscutting set of disciplines. Our Editorial Committee commissions reviews that present such a view and, when placed together, trace several of the long arcs that link our field.”
Richard Gallagher, President and Editor-in-Chief of Annual Reviews, commented, “The role of Annual Reviews is to accelerate the knowledge of researchers, efficiently connecting them to the wider literature and identifying the information most critical to them. The Annual Review of Vision Science is an important new resource for vision scientists that will share their insights with everyone seeking to understand vision in health and disease.”
Selected topics in the inaugural volume:
- Scientific and engineering advances in understanding retinal image formation, and the clinical applications of this information.
- Genetic, optogenetic, and neurobiological measurements to measure and manipulate the retina.
- Progress in understanding retinal function and development.
- Study of the brain structures that interpret retinal signals and control behavior.
- Links between behavior and neurobiology, including eye movements, color perception, visual adaptation, and three-dimensional perception.
Complimentary online access to the first volume of the journal is available until November 2016 at vision.annualreviews.org. Interested institutions that do not have a current online account and would like to track usage statistics of the complimentary access to the journal may register with the Sales Department (sales@annualreviews.org).
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