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Seeing with the visual cortex

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Abstract

A short analysis of the input-output organization of the primary visual cortical areas in the cat and monkey is followed by a description of the salient microelectrophysiological properties of retino-geniculo-cortical system neurons.

It is concluded that a strict hierarchical model of cortical processing of visual information is no longer tenable.

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Dopo una succinta analisi della organizzazione afferente ed efferente delle aree corticali visive primarie del gatto e della scimmia, l'autore descrive le principali proprietà funzionali dei neuroni del sistema visivo retino-genicolo-corticale.

Sulla base dei dati riferiti viene considerato non più proponibile il modello gerarchico della analisi corticale delle informazioni sensoriali visive.

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Camarda, R.M. Seeing with the visual cortex. Ital J Neuro Sci 5, 133–153 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02043216

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