Geometric hallucination derived from cortical wiring
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Ermentrout and Cowan derive Klüver's form constants from the architecture of primary visual cortex. Stripes and hexagons of cortical activity map, through the retino-cortical transform, onto the tunnels and spirals people describe. This remains the strongest standing argument that geometric hallucination is generated inside the visual system rather than received from outside it.
People: G. Bard Ermentrout, Jack D. Cowan
Place: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Tags: form-constants, visual-cortex, modelling, v1, skeptical-explanation
The source
- Title
- A mathematical theory of visual hallucination patterns
- Authors
- Ermentrout, G.B., Cowan, J.D.
- Published in
- Biological Cybernetics
- Volume
- 34
- Year
- 1979
- DOI
- 10.1007/BF00336965
- Citation
- Ermentrout, G.B., & Cowan, J.D. (1979). A mathematical theory of visual hallucination patterns. Biological Cybernetics, 34.
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