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NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 5, Pages 360-372Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2619
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- NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE [F32EY018982, R01EY010742] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH063912] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NEI NIH HHS [F32-EY018982, F32 EY018982, R01-EY010742, R01 EY010742, R01 EY010742-16] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH063912, R01 MH063912-08] Funding Source: Medline
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Incoming sensory information is sent to the brain along modality-specific channels corresponding to the five senses. Each of these channels further parses the incoming signals into parallel streams to provide a compact, efficient input to the brain. Ultimately, these parallel input signals must be elaborated on and integrated in the cortex to provide a unified and coherent percept. Recent studies in the primate visual cortex have greatly contributed to our understanding of how this goal is accomplished. Multiple strategies including retinal tiling, hierarchical and parallel processing and modularity, defined spatially and by cell type-specific connectivity, are used by the visual system to recover the intricate detail of our visual surroundings.
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