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Science 13 April 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5515, pp. 232 - 233
DOI: 10.1126/science.1060779
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Perspectives

NEUROBIOLOGY:
Function Following Form

Jonathan B. Levitt

How is visual information relayed from the retina through the lateral geniculate nucleus to the visual cortex? In his Perspective, Levitt discusses new findings (Yabuta et al.) showing how information reaching layer 4B in area V1 of the visual cortex is relayed in separate pathways to higher cortical areas.

The author is in the Department of Biology, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA. E-mail: jbl{at}sci.ccny.cuny.edu

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