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Information Routing, Correspondence Finding, and Object Recognition in the Brain

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When we look at the object in front of us, a specific pattern of activity is created in the ganglion cells of the retina. This pattern is relayed and transformed on its way via the thalamus and primary visual areas to higher cortical stages, where it may interact with and activate certain memories stored there. If this happens, we feel that we have recognized the object. While the recognition process as a whole is far from being understood, there is a wealth of details known about the individual anatomical subsystems involved in this process. Light entering the eye from the environment is focussed and projected by the lens as an inverted image onto the back of the eye. This concave surface is covered by the retina, the first outpost of the central nervous system (CNS) to be encountered by the light (see Figure 2.1a).

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Wolfrum, P. (2010). Background and Concepts. In: Information Routing, Correspondence Finding, and Object Recognition in the Brain. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 316. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15254-2_2

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