Abstract

This paper will present the history and current status of understanding of the spatial architecture of primary visual cortex (V-l, striate cortex, area 17) in primates. Special emphasis will be placed on experimental techniques, mathematical and computational analyses, and the relevance of V-l architecture to current work in machine vision. The intention is to provide an overview of the difficulties, both conceptual and experimental, which have characterized this field for the past fifty years, and to provide some insight into the importance of spatial architecture in visual cortex to both biological and machine vision.

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