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Parallel and Complementary Organization of Cortical Eye Movement Control and Visual Perception

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In visual physiology we are faced with two complementary aspects and problems. One is concerned essentially with the anatomical and physiological representation of the retina and of visual stimuli in the brain, and the other with the involvement of various brain areas in eye movement control. The first aspect has dominated visual physiology during the last 25-30 years, leading to a model in which the visual world is layed out across the brain as on maps in which either the spatial dimensions of visual stimuli or specific aspects or features of the visual information are faithfully and orderly represented (Creutzfeldt 1983, 1985). Without going into the details of this model at this point, the question arises how this distributed information is recombined into a single and meaningful concept of the visual world. Is meaning in fact represented in feature maps of highest order and abstraction?

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Creutzfeldt, O.D. (1990). Parallel and Complementary Organization of Cortical Eye Movement Control and Visual Perception. In: Deecke, L., Eccles, J.C., Mountcastle, V.B. (eds) From Neuron to Action. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02601-4_27

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