Modular and Hierarchical Organization of Extrastriate Visual Cortex in the Macaque Monkey
- *Biology Division, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125; †Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas, Houston, Texas 77030; ‡Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226; §Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
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In the 1970s, a quiet revolution began in our understanding of how information processing occurs in regions beyond the primary visual cortex. Work from several laboratories indicated that there were more visual areas than just the three proposed by classic neuroanatomists. The number of extrastriate areas identified around that time was about a half dozen in various species (Zeki 1976; Allman 1977; Van Essen 1979; Tusa et al. 1981). It also became apparent during this period that the connectivity among visual areas was more complex than the simple serial processing sequence that many investigators expected to encounter.
In the ensuing decade, there has been an explosion of information about the organization and function of extrastriate visual cortex. Although several of the basic principles articulated in the previous decade remain largely correct, it is now apparent that the visual cortex is far more complex and intricate in its organization than had...
