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6.1 An Overview of the Visual System

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6.2 The Retina

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6.3 Visual Processing Begins in Bipolar, Horizontal, Amacrine and Ganglion Cells

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6.4 The Thalamus and Primary Visual Cortex

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6.5 Extrastriate Cortex

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6.6 Unsolved Questions In Visual Perception

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