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Neuroanatomy and function in two visual systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Bruce Bridgeman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 bruceb@cats.ucsc.eduzzyx.ucsc.edu/Psych/Faculty/bridgeman.html

Abstract

Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology are insufficient to specify function. Modeling is essential to elucidate function, but psychophysics is also required. An example is the cognitive and sensorimotor branches of the visual system: anatomy shows direct cross talk between the branches. Psychophysics in normal humans shows links from cognitive to sensorimotor, but the reverse link is excluded by visual illusions affecting the cognitive system but not the sensorimotor system.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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