The visual cortex is a contact bundle

DOI10.1016/0096-3003(89)90091-XzbMath0676.92020OpenAlexW2010825743MaRDI QIDQ1123169

William C. Hoffman

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Applied Mathematics and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0096-3003(89)90091-x

zbMATH Keywords

contact manifoldretinavisual cortexcontact bundleaxiomatic treatment of visual perceptionconformal group CO(1,3)Lie group connectionphysiology of visionvisual manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Psychophysics and psychophysiology; perception (91E30) Physiological, cellular and medical topics (92Cxx)

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