What can simple brains teach us about how vision works

• Main Author: David D. Cox (auth)
• Other Authors: Andrea Benucci (auth), Davide Zoccolan (auth), R. Clay Reid (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; object recognition; Illusions; Vision; rodent; fish; Amblyopia; insect; Perception; Visual Cortex; marmoset
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Vision is the process of extracting behaviorally-relevant information from patterns of light that fall on retina as the eyes sample the outside world. Traditionally, nonhuman primates (macaque monkeys, in particular) have been viewed by many as the animal model-of-choice for investigating the neuron...