DISTANCE MODULATION OF NEURAL ACTIVITY IN THE VISUAL-CORTEX

Humans use distance information to scale the size of objects. Earlier studies demonstrated changes in neural response as a function of gaze direction and gaze distance in the dorsal visual cortical pathway to p arietal cortex. These findings have been interpreted as evidence of th e parietal pathway's role in spatial representation. Here, distance-de pendent: changes in neural response were also found to be common in ne urons in the ventral pathway leading to inferotemporal cortex of monke ys, This result implies that the information necessary for object and spatial scaling is common to all visual cortical areas.