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    • The visual system initially processes information locally, which is insufficient for recognizing complex, extended objects.
    • Understanding how local visual signals are integrated into global object representations is a key challenge.

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    • To review evidence for intermediate-level visual processing stages.
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    • Review of evidence from shape detection and discrimination tasks.
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    • Examination of clinical deficits in visual shape processing.

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    • Evidence supports global mechanisms integrating information beyond neighboring cells.
    • Intermediate processing stages are optimally tuned to a range of object shapes.
    • These stages are vulnerable, with deficits observed in conditions like amblyopia and macular disease.

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    • Intermediate-level visual processing is critical for global shape perception.
    • Sensitivity to global object shape emerges at these intermediate stages.
    • Deficits in these stages are linked to various visual and neurological conditions.