Physiological Optics

  • Peter F. Sharp
  • Russell Philips
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Abstract

The earliest theories about the visual system regarded the eye not as receiving signals but rather as an emitter of “psychic stuff;” vision was a process of feeling the scene. This led the early anatomists to regard the optic nerve as a hollow tube through which this “stuff” was transmitted.

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Ganglion Cell Receptive Field Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Amacrine Cell Spherical Aberration 
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