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The stacked-plate organization
is preserved in going from
retina to geniculate, except
that the fibers from the retinas
are bundled into a cable and
splayed out again, in an orderly
way, at their geniculate
destination.
As a whole, the sextuple-
plate structure has just one
topography. Thus the two left
half-retinal surfaces project to
one sextuple plate, the left
lateral geniculate (see the
figure at left). Similarly, the
right half-retinas project to the
right geniculate. Any single
point in one layer corresponds
to a point in the animal's field
of vision (via one eye or the
other), and movement along the
layer implies movement in the
visual field along some path
dictated by the visual-field-to-
geniculate map. If we move
instead in a direction
perpendicular to the layers--for
example, along the radial line
in the figure at the head of the
section--as the electrode passes
from one layer to the next, the
receptive fields stay in the
same part of the visual field but
the eyes switch--except, of
course, where the sequence
reverses. The half visual field
maps onto each geniculate six
times, three for each eye, with
the maps in precise register.