Visual neuroscience

Three comments on Teller's "bridge locus".

Visual neuroscience November 1, 2013 J Anthony Movshon

The notion of a set of neurons that form a "bridge locus" serving as the immediate substrate of visual perception is examined in the light of evidence on the architecture of the visual pathway, of current thinking about perceptual representations, and of the basis of perceptual awareness. The bridge locus is likely to be part of a tangled web of representations, and this complexity raises the...