Visual processing: parallel-er and parallel-er.
The mammalian visual system processes many different aspects of the visual scene in separate, parallel channels. Recent experiments suggest that the visual cortex, like the retina, forms parallel circuits even at very fine spatial scales.
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Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5701, USA. rborn@hms.harvard.edu
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