The visual cortex is a contact bundle

DOI10.1016/0096-3003(89)90091-XMaRDI QIDQ1123169zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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