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Vision: modular analysis--or not?

D Burr
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It has commonly been assumed that the many separate areas of the visual system perform modular analyses, each restricted to a single attribute of the image. A recent paper advocates a radically different approach, where all areas in the hierarchy analyse all attributes of the image to extract perceptually relevant decisions.

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D Burr. 1999-02-11. Vision: modular analysis--or not?. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0960-9822(99)80057-8

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