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The organization of the vertebrate retinal elements

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In studying sense organs one of our ultimate aims is to learn to understand the mechanisms of sensory integration. For this reason it is necessary to use the appropriate adequate stimuli and combihe an analysis of the sensory response in afferent nerves with parallel exploration of what takes place in the nervous centres. Every experimenter will realize that there can be no understanding of sensory integration hefore we know the specific attributes whereby one kind of response is discriminated from another, in fact, the fundamental general problem facing the investigator nearly always concerns discrimination. The more important the sense organ, the better developed its discriminatory function. Sight, our most important channel of information, has brought discrimination to such a degree of perfection that a nervous centre behind the receptors immediately takes charge of the primary message for purposes of elaboration. This fact should always be borne in mind. It is a complication as well as an advantage providing us with unique opportunities for research.

The Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. — Paper received June 20 1949

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