Abstract

There is accumulating neurophysiological evidence that the primate visual system constructs multiple representations of the visual world (1-5). Each of these representations, based on classes of neurons with distinctive properties and roles, provides an analysis of some aspect, for example motion, of the visual world. In everyday life, a smooth interleaving of the information provided by these parallel pathways leaves us unaware of this segregation of function: Effortlessly, we use a complex tapestry of form, color, depth, and motion to make sense of the patterns of light and dark falling upon our retinae.

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