Editorial policy

The Editorial policy for each of the five sections of Vision Research is as follows: Section 1, Neurobiology, will accept manuscripts on a broad range of experimental approaches which aim to understand the neuronal mechanisms that underlie vision. Relevant ideas include physiological optics, phototrans-duction, neurotransmitters, functional anatomy, electrophysiology, development and regeneration. The Editors seek submissions concerning structure and function at all levels of visual processing, including the eye, retina, central visual and integrative structures. Of special interest will be papers seeking out morphological and functional correlations at the single unit level or in groups of neurons forming specific structures such as orientation or colour modules in the cortex. Neuropharmacological papers on the mechanisms of visual information transmission through retinal or central synapses using recording in vivo or in vitro sliced or isolated cell preparations will be welcomed. In addition to papers on normal development of the visual pathway, papers dealing with reorganization of the retina or central visual centres following transplantation of neurons and/or glial cells are also encouraged. In t,ivo and in vitro studies examining the effects of growth factors in developmental, regenerative or reorganizing processes are expected. The Section Editors for Section 1 are Yutaka Fukuda (Japan) and Sam Wu (U.S.A.). Section 2 welcomes papers which deal predominantly with the Psyehophysics of vision in the mature, developing and ageing human visual system. Major topics in this section will include: orientation, motion, depth, colour, form, pattern and texture; binocular processes, spatial vision and stereopsis; adaptation, after-effects and induced effects; pre-attentive and attentive vision in man. These topics have been effectively covered by Vision Research for many years and they continue to form an exciting and now rapidly developing field. In addition to novelty and soundness of ideas and techniques, the Editors would emphasize clarity of presentation in text and figures as a main virtue in a field which is burdened by increasingly specialized concepts and methods. The Section Editors for Section 2 are Dennis Levi (U.S.A.) and Davida Teller (U.S.A.). Section 3, Behavioural Physiology and Visuomotor Control, welcomes papers on vision in animals investigated with behavioural techniques, and studies that address the interfacing between vision and behavioural activities in the widest sense, in animals and human subjects. Eye movements are an elementary example of such a mutual relation: vision is used to control eye movements, while eye movements also effect vision. Thus, this section welcomes oculomotor studies of all …