Abstract:
In the visual system, objects and object groupings may be initially coded in terms of
physically separable attributes or features, representing differential spatial frequencies,
orientations, colors, directions of motion, and so on, which in combination
come to define wholistic perceptual representations. Although it has been known
for some time that visuocortical neurons can display quite specific response preferences
for particular features, it is only recently that evidence has been gathered
concerning the mechanisms by which these specific neural representations might
become combined or "bound" to form a unified representation.
