The Biology of Vision

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Since it's a hole in the retina, it creates a blind spot. Neural messages from each eye come together at a point in the brain called the optic chasm before passing through the thalamus to the visual cortex, in the back of the brain. Special cells in the visual cortex called feature detectors fire only for specific stimuli in specific locations...
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Special cells in the visual cortex called feature detectors fire only for specific stimuli in specific locations. The feature detectors for person-shaped stimuli would fire in the case of seeing the friend, as would the feature detector for smooth textures (his skin) and brown colors (his hair) ? but the feature detectors for fuzzy textures, pink colors, and tree-shaped stimuli would not fire...
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