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Multiple processing streams in occipitotemporal visual cortex

Nature volume 371, pages 151–154 (1994)Cite this article

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THE earliest stages of cortical visual processing in areas VI and V2 of the macaque monkey contain internal subdivisions ('blobs' and 'interblobs' in layer 4B in VI; thin, thick and interstripes in V2) that are selectively interconnected and contain neurons with distinctive visual response properties1–10. Here we use anatomical pathway tracing to demonstrate that higher visual areas, V 4 and the ventral posterior inferotemporal cortex, each contain anatom-ical subdivisions that have distinct input and output projections. These findings, in conjunction with others11–15, suggest that modul-arity and multistream processing within individual cortical areas are widespread features of neocortical organization.

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  1. David C. Van Essen

    Present address: Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA

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  1. Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, The Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53226, USA

    Edgar A. DeYoe

  2. Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA

    Daniel J. Felleman & Evelyn McClendon

  3. Division of Biology 216-76, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91125, USA

    Daniel J. Felleman & David C. Van Essen

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DeYoe, E., Felleman, D., Van Essen, D. et al. Multiple processing streams in occipitotemporal visual cortex. Nature 371, 151–154 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/371151a0

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