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Marg et al.1 recorded activity from an unspecified region of the human occipital cortex but the properties of neurones there were very different from those in cat or monkey striate cortex. Work on man's closest relatives, the apes2, might give a better indication of the way in which visual information is analysed in the human cortex. We had an unusual opportunity to study an old, non-reproductive, female black gibbon (Hylobates concolor, a lesser Asian ape from the forests of south-east Asia). The properties of neurones in striate and pre-striate cortex in this animal suggest that the visual areas of anthropoid apes are similar in their organization to those of monkeys3–5.
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Vital-Durand, F., Blakemore, C. Visual cortex of an anthropoid ape. Nature 291, 588–590 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/291588a0
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