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Since the work of Henschen (1923), extended during the 1914–1918 War by Holmes and Lister (1916) and by Pierre Marie and Chatelin (1914–1915), it has been generally accepted that localised wounds of the occipital cortex produce good evidence of point to point projection of the visual field on the occipital cortex. This has been strongly supported by the anatomical work of Le Gros Clark and Penman (1934) and of Polyak (1957), but there is not yet agreement even on the exact projection of the macular area on the cerebral cortex. The best physiological work which has been done is that by Talbot and Marshall (1941), who have mapped the exposed postero-lateral surface of the occipital lobe in the monkey. In the present work we have used an essentially similar technique, but by introducing long steel needles we have mapped most of the cortex of the calcarine fissures and can give a quantitative account of the nature of the calcarine visual projection.
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Whitteridge, D., Daniel, P.M. (1961). The Representation of the Visual Field on the Calcarine Cortex. In: Jung, R., Kornhuber, H. (eds) Neurophysiologie und Psychophysik des Visuellen Systems / The Visual System: Neurophysiology and Psychophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49763-6_29
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