Current Opinion in Neurobiology,

A new framework for understanding vision from the perspective of the primary visual cortex

Publication date: October 2019Source: Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 58Author(s): Li ZhaopingVisual attention selects only a tiny fraction of visual input information for further processing. Selection starts in the primary visual cortex (V1), which creates a bottom-up saliency map to guide the fovea to selected visual locations via gaze shifts. This motivates a new framework that views vision as consisting of encoding, selection, and decoding stages, placing selection on center stage. It...

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

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