title: Seeing with the visual cortex.
abstract: A short analysis of the input-output organization of the primary visual cortical areas in the cat and monkey is followed by a description of the salient microelectrophysiological properties of retino-geniculo-cortical system neurons. It is concluded that a strict hierarchical model of cortical processing of visual information is no longer tenable.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002415:Cats; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology; D005829:Geniculate Bodies / Q000502:physiology; D000882:Haplorhini; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology; D012165:Retinal Ganglion Cells / Q000502:physiology; D013569:Synapses / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*