Understanding Ocular Dominance Development from Binocular Input Statistics
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It is hypothesized that the striate cortex is concerned with, among other things, removing binocular correlations in the inputs. This theory is applied to explain the diierent ocular dominance column (ODC) formations observed after visual developments under strabismus, excessive binocular correlations, normal environment, and monocular deprivation. These ODC formations are shown to be consequences of decorrelation coding strategies for diierent binocular input statistics. Experimental tests of the theory are suggested.
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