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Before examining the differential role played by the two major parallel visual pathways in attention I should like to very briefly review the current status of the parvo-magno functional segregation at various levels of the visual pathways, mainly referring to primates.
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Marzi, C.A. (2002). Visual Attention And the Parallel Visual Pathways. In: Cantoni, V., Marinaro, M., Petrosino, A. (eds) Visual Attention Mechanisms. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0111-4_1
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