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The primate visual system performs the complex task of analyzing the visual environment in several stages. At the first stage, the retina, the incoming image is transduced into neural signals. These signals are then transmitted to the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and from there to the striate cortex (VI). Cells in all these stages have comparatively small receptive fields, with the biggest being in VI. The maximum size of striate receptive fields have a diameter of about one degree (Hubel & Wiesel, 1968). Unlike the receptive fields of cells in the retina and the LGN, receptive fields of striate neurons tend to have a preferred orientation.
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Grossberg, S., Grunewald, A. (1994). Spatial Pooling and Perceptual Framing by Synchronizing Cortical Dynamics. In: Marinaro, M., Morasso, P.G. (eds) ICANN ’94. ICANN 1994. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2097-1_2
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