Kalanit Grill-Spector, “Vision and Perception” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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How Much of the Brain Is Visual?
The brain is always, always wrinkled. But it's hard to see stuff because a cortical sheet is about three millimeters thick. And that many areas, are more than two dozen aras actually, that have a representation of the visual field. In one experiment, it takes me usually about 20 minutes to get a really nice looking map. I can map like about 18 areas. So this would be v one. This is where information from the eyes gets here. It ansoyesis is always in the same place. Everybody, i turns out, tat the v one, is always in ta sulcus of the same cuson everybody is called ha colcerant.
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