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Visual Data Formatting

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The Perception of Visual Information

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A deeper understanding of the perception of visual information has puzzled researchers from a wide range of scientific disciplines including physiology, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, mathematics, psychology, physics, and computer sciences. Although human vision is quite well described at a neuroanatomical level, the information processing tasks performed by the retina and the visual cortex of the brain remain largely unclear. The computational paradigms of biological vision are simply not understood.

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  1. Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, 53226, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    William R. Hendee

  2. Bristol General Hospital, Guinea Street, BS1 6SY, Bristol, UK

    Peter N. T. Wells

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Raff, U. (1993). Visual Data Formatting. In: Hendee, W.R., Wells, P.N.T. (eds) The Perception of Visual Information. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6769-8_7

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