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Nature 375, 121-123 (11 May 1995) | doi:10.1038/375121a0; Received 19 December 1994; Accepted 25 February 1995
Are we aware of neural activity in primary visual cortex?
Francis Crick* & Christof Koch†
- *The Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
- †Computation and Neural Systems Program, 139-74, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Abstract
It is usually assumed that people are visually aware of at least some of the neuronal activity in the primary visual area, V1, of the neocortex. But the neuroanatomy of the macaque monkey suggests that, although primates may be aware of neural activity in other visual cortical areas, they are not directly aware of that in area V1. There is some psychophysical evidence in humans that supports this hypothesis.
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