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Microelectrode studies in the last ten years have uncovered an elaborate multiple representation of the visual field in the posterior association cortex of cats and primates. As many as thirteen “visual areas” have been identified (1, 22, 30, 34, 35), each containing a representation of at least part of the visual field, and still other cortical areas, well beyond the visual association cortex even most generously defined, have been shown to contain neurons responsive to visual stimuli (19,21). There is no longer any doubt that such multiple representation is a general characteristic of the posterior association cortex, for qualitatively comparable organizations have been demonstrated in the auditory and somatic sensory fields (14, 19, 20, 24, 25, 32, 33).
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Graybiel, A.M., Berson, D.M. (1981). Families of Related Cortical Areas in the Extrastriate Visual System. In: Multiple Visual Areas. Cortical Sensory Organization, vol 2. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5814-8_4
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