Objectives:

• Describe the cortical pathways for visual processing
• Review the fundamental response properties of neurons from retina to extrastriate visual cortex
• Review the functional architecture of visual cortex
• Discuss the way in which action potentials represent visual information

Reading Assignment:

Chapter 6 (The Cortical Representation) of Wandell B (1995) Foundations of Vision, B Wandell. Sunderland: Sinauer Associates.