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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 7, 3416-3468, Copyright © 1987 by Society for Neuroscience
Psychophysical evidence for separate channels for the perception of form, color, movement, and depth
MS Livingstone and DH Hubel
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Physiological and anatomical findings in the primate visual system, as well
as clinical evidence in humans, suggest that different components of visual
information processing are segregated into largely independent parallel
pathways. Such a segregation leads to certain predictions about human
vision. In this paper we describe psychophysical experiments on the
interactions of color, form, depth, and movement in human perception, and
we attempt to correlate these aspects of visual perception with the
different subdivisions of the visual system.
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