The relevance of visual perception to cortical evolution and development.
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Purves, D; Williams, SM; Lotto, RB
Published in: Novartis Foundation symposium
January 2000
The quality of brightness--perhaps the simplest visual attribute we perceive--appears to be determined probabilistically. In this empirical conception of the perception of light, the stimulus-induced activity of visual cortical neurons does not encode the retinal image or the properties of the stimulus per se, but associations (percepts) determined by the relative probabilities of the possible sources of the stimulus. If this theory is correct, the rationale for the prolonged postnatal construction of visual circuitry--and the evolution of this visual scheme--is to strengthen and/or create by activity-dependent feedback the empirically determined association on which vision depends.
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Novartis Foundation symposium
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1935-4657
ISSN
1528-2511
Publication Date
January 2000
Volume
228
Start / End Page
240 / 254
Related Subject Headings
- Visual Perception
- Humans
- Cerebral Cortex
- Biological Evolution
- Animals
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Purves, D., Williams, S. M., & Lotto, R. B. (2000). The relevance of visual perception to cortical evolution and development. Novartis Foundation Symposium, 228, 240–254. https://doi.org/10.1002/0470846631.ch16
Purves, D., S. M. Williams, and R. B. Lotto. “The relevance of visual perception to cortical evolution and development.” Novartis Foundation Symposium 228 (January 2000): 240–54. https://doi.org/10.1002/0470846631.ch16.
Purves D, Williams SM, Lotto RB. The relevance of visual perception to cortical evolution and development. Novartis Foundation symposium. 2000 Jan;228:240–54.
Purves, D., et al. “The relevance of visual perception to cortical evolution and development.” Novartis Foundation Symposium, vol. 228, Jan. 2000, pp. 240–54. Epmc, doi:10.1002/0470846631.ch16.
Purves D, Williams SM, Lotto RB. The relevance of visual perception to cortical evolution and development. Novartis Foundation symposium. 2000 Jan;228:240–254.
Published In
Novartis Foundation symposium
DOI
EISSN
1935-4657
ISSN
1528-2511
Publication Date
January 2000
Volume
228
Start / End Page
240 / 254
Related Subject Headings
- Visual Perception
- Humans
- Cerebral Cortex
- Biological Evolution
- Animals