Lecture 1: Introduction to Biological Vision - Vision Research ...

V1 small scale• Basic properties–V1 architecture• hypercolumns organized into columns perpendicular tosurface in which cells prefer same orientation anddegree of binocularity• hypercolumns are on the scale of 1-2 mm, and spanrange of orientations and degree of left/right eyepreference. A hypercolumn is believed to be acomputational unit that analyzes a “point” of visualspace.Wednesday, August 29, 12