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Visual perception: sunny side up
1Johns Hopkins University, 338 Krieger Hall, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA. connor@jhu.edu
Current Biology : CB
|October 10, 2001
Abstract:
Illumination, both natural and artificial, typically comes from above. Neurons in visual area V4--part of the object-processing pathway in the primate brain--may rely on this anisotropy to infer three-dimensional structure from shading cues.