title: Why spatial frequency processing in the visual cortex?
abstract: The nature of redundancy in visual images is discussed and the methods of removing statistical redundancies are considered. It is demonstrated that local spatial frequency analysis is a highly successful method and it is thus argued that this determines the choice of representation of the visual image by the simple cells of the visual cortex.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology