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This article roughly corresponds to my second lecture on the subject of vision presented at the Summer School. In the first lecture, I have described basic design and operation of visual pathways from the retina to the primary visual area VI of the visual cortex. Many excellent descriptions of this subject exist in the literature (e.g. Kuffler and Nicholls 1976), and I shall here introduce only the basic concepts.
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Marčelja, S. (1986). Representation of Visual World in the Striate Cortex. In: Pifat-Mrzljak, G. (eds) Supramolecular Structure and Function. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70905-0_8
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