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News On Views: Pandemonium Revisited

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How do we recognize objects from different viewpoints? A new model, based on the known properties of cortical neurons, may help resolve this long-standing debate.

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Figure 1: The temporal stream within visual cortex processes information in a hierarchical fashion.
Figure 2: Pandemonium revisited.

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