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Colour Pathways and Hierarchies in the Cerebral Cortex

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Central and Peripheral Mechanisms of Colour Vision

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My interest in colour vision is a direct consequence of my studies on the anatomical and functional organization of the prestriate cortex which, in the macaque monkey, is a large strip of cytoarchitectonically uniform cortex surrounding the striate cortex (V1). Long regarded as a single cortical field, it was commonly referred to as the “visuo-psychic” band or the “visual association” cortex with the implication that, unlike V1 or the “visuo-sensory” cortex (Campbell 1905), which was thought to be involved in visual sensation, the prestriate cortex was more involved in visual perception. The difficulty of demonstrating any clear and obvious visual defect after lesions of the prestriate visual cortex (see Zeki 1969 for a review), compared to the obvious scotomas which obtain after V1 lesions, served naturally to reinforce this view.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

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  1. Karolinska Institutet, S-10401, Stockholm, Sweden

    David Ottoson (Professor of Physiology) (Professor of Physiology)

  2. University College, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    Semir Zeki (Professor of Neurobiology) (Professor of Neurobiology)

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Zeki, S. (1985). Colour Pathways and Hierarchies in the Cerebral Cortex. In: Ottoson, D., Zeki, S. (eds) Central and Peripheral Mechanisms of Colour Vision. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08020-5_3

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