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Science 11 October 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5592, pp. 376 - 377
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078095
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Reconstructing a 3D World

Charles E. Connor

How does the brain translate the two-dimensional images represented by the retina into the three-dimensional (3D) images that we see? In his Perspective, Connor discusses new work (Tsutsui et al.; Vanduffel et al.) in monkeys and humans that reveals the brain areas responsible for synthesizing 3D reality from texture and motion cues.

The author is in the Department of Neuroscience and the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. E-mail: connor{at}jhu.edu

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