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Today we have a fairly good idea of the preprocessing of sensory information on its way to the cortex. This chapter is devoted to the most extensively studied example: the visual input. Most of the results presented here are due to electrophysiological investigations (for a review see Hubel and Wiesel 1977).
Thus the machinery may be roughly uniform over the whole striate cortex, the differences being in the inputs. A given region of cortex simply digests what is brought to it, and the process is the same everywhere. D. H. Hubel and T. N. Wiesel, 1974
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Palm, G. (1982). The Visual Input to the Cortex. In: Palm, G. (eds) Neural Assemblies. Studies of Brain Function, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81792-2_10
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