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A NORMAL cat faces the visual world with an arsenal of feature-detecting neurones in its visual cortex. Virtually every cell is selectively sensitive to the orientation of an edge moving across its receptive field1 and the whole gamut of possible orientations is represented among the complete population of neurones.
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SLUYTERS, R., BLAKEMORE, C. Experimental Creation of Unusual Neuronal Properties in Visual Cortex of Kitten. Nature 246, 506–508 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/246506a0
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