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This work began about seven years ago as an examination of the orientation specificity of color cells in the fovea! striate cortex (area 17) of the Rhesus monkey. At that time I joined PETER GOURAS, who was studying the color specificity of the cells in this region, using quantitative methods adapted from his earlier studies in the retina (1–3). To obtain careful measurements of orientation specificity, we had the shop build us an automated device that would generate moving visual stimuli whose length, width, orientation, velocity, direction of movement and color could be varied independently and under precise control (4).
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Dow, B.M. (1978). Central Mechanisms of Foveal Vision in the Monkey. 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_48
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