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Vision is the favoured template in systems neuroscience for understanding how the brain works—from stimulus to perception, consciousness and behaviour. With its many special properties, some better developed in lower species but not evolutionarily conserved, seeing clearly is not the exclusive property of human primates. Yet the ability to relate the experiences of what it is to see and perceive, the relationship of vision to other sensibilities, the neuronal connectivity of the visual and other systems, the ability selectively to activate and study this feature or that, and the rich but tragic clinical repertoire of disordered vision have sustained the activities of many individuals working in clinical and basic neuroscience over several generations. Now, as Brain and Visual Perception, Oxford University Press have published the collaborative work of David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel, Nobel
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