Published November 25, 1977
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Journal Article
Magnification in striate cortex and retinal ganglion cell layer of owl monkey: a quantitative comparison
Abstract
Magnification, the relative size of the neural representation of a portion of the visual field, decreases more rapidly with increasing visual field eccentricity in striate cortex than in the retinal ganglion cell layer of the owl monkey (Aotus trivirgatus); the proportion of the cells in striate cortex devoted to central vision is much larger than the comparable proportion of retinal ganglion cells. Magnification in striate cortex is a power function of magnification in the retinal ganglion cell layer. A formula for convergence (ganglion cells to cortical neurons) follows from this relationship.
Additional Information
© 1977 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Received 22 February 1977; revised 10 June 1977. J.M. thanks C. N. Woolsey for advice and help. This work was supported by NIH grants NS 12131 and NS 00178, an NIH research fellowship and a Spencer Fellowship to J.M., and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship to J.M.A.Additional details
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- NS 12131
- NIH
- NS 00178
- NIH
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Spencer Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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