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Visualization of Cortical Modules in Flattened Mammalian Cortices
Published on: January 22, 2018
[Cortical Regions Contributing to the Reconstruction of the 3D Visual World]
1Center for Information and Neural Networks, Advanced ICT Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.
Abstract:
Humans can immediately perceive a rich and stable 3D visual world even though the visual inputs on the retina are 2D. Which raises the question; which cortical regions are responsible for reconstructing stereoscopic perception? In this article, I would like to outline the general research methods of stereopsis and introduce our recent research projects that show that the middle-or higher-order visual areas, V3A and V3B/KO, located adjacent to the interparietal sulcus, play an important role in the reconstruction of the 3D visual world.
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