Multiple Choice
In 1981, Hubel and Wiesel received a Nobel Prize for their research on the visual cortex. In their investigations they found that different neurons are sensitive to different patterns projected on a screen in front of cats. One type of cell might fire most rapidly in response to a horizontal line in the lower right part of the visual field, another to a diagonal line in the upper left part of the visual field. Hubel and Wiesel called these cells ________ cells.
A) papillae
B) retinal disparity
C) negative afterimage cells
D) feature-detector
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