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For two components of the visual evoked potential elicited by the onset of a stationary pattern the degree of interocular transfer of the attenuation caused by prior exposure to a similar pattern was measured. The results show almost complete interocular transfer for component CII, thought to originate in prestriate cortex, but only partial transfer of CI, thought to be of striate cortical origin. This suggests that in man, as in monkey, monocularly driven neurones are more common in striate than in prestriate cortex.
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Smith, A.T., Jeffreys, D.A. Evoked potential evidence for differences in binocularity between striate and prestriate regions of human visual cortex. Exp Brain Res 36, 375–380 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00238918
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