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During the last several decades the cat has been one of visual science’s most generous benefactors, in terms of contributing to our understanding of the neural mechanisms involved in vision. As a result of this generosity, we know a great deal about the receptive field properties of neurons at different stages of the cat’s visual nervous system, and we are beginning to see how these properties may be correlated with structural features such as morphology and sites of projection. These anatomical and physiological data, while certainly important in their own right, can take on added significance if their relationship to visual perception can be established. For this reason, as we continue to learn more about the visual system of the cat, it becomes increasingly important to know in some detail the visual capacities of the cat.
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Blake, R. (1978). Spatial Vision in the Cat. In: Cool, S.J., Smith, E.L. (eds) Frontiers in Visual Science. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35397-3_23
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