The mechanism of directionally selective units in rabbit's retina.
The Journal of PhysiologyPublished 1 June 1965Open access
H. B. Barlow, W. R. Levick
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Experiments are described which show, first, that directional selectivity is not due to optical aberrations of some kind and, secondly, that it is not a simple matter of the latency of response varying systematically across the receptive field.
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