Includes bibliographical references (p. [493]-495) and index
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Elements -- Membranes, action potentials, synapses -- General features of sensory systems -- Classification and phylogeny -- Genes, genomics and neurosensory systems -- Mechanosensitivity of cell membranes -- Kinaesthesia -- Touch -- Equilibrium and hearing : the uses of hair cells -- Cerebral analysis -- Chemosensitiity in prokaryocytes -- Mammalian chemo-enteroreceptors -- Gustation -- Olfaction -- Invertebrate vision -- The human eye -- The retina -- Visual pathways and cortices -- Other vertebrate visual systems -- Thermosensitivity -- Minority senses -- Pain -- Summing up -- Philosophical postscript