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The axons of retinal ganglion cells terminate in at least three nuclei of the diencephalon, the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the thalamus, the pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus, and the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus. Of these, the terminations in the LGN are by far the heaviest and best analyzed; the hypothalamic and pulvinar terminations are much less substantial and even their existence was debated until relatively recently.
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© 1983 Plenum Press, New York
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Stone, J. (1983). On the Understanding of Visual Processing in the Diencephalon. In: Parallel Processing in the Visual System. Perspectives in Vision Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4433-9_6
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