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We need to make one
qualification concerning this
duplication of connections. If,
having found the best stimulus-
-orientation, position,
movement direction, and so on-
-we then compare the
responses evoked from one eye
with the responses evoked from
the other, we find that the two
responses are not necessarily
equally vigorous. Some cells do
respond equally to the two eyes,
but others consistently give a
more powerful discharge to one
eye than to the other. Overall,
except for the part of the cortex
subserving parts of the visual
field well away from the
direction of gaze, we find no
obvious favoritism: in a given
hemisphere, just as many cells
favor the eye on the opposite
side (the contralateral eye) as
the eye on the same side (the
ipsilateral). All shades of
relative eye dominance are
represented, from cells
monopolized by the left eye
through cells equally affected
to cells responding only to the
right eye.
We can now do a population
study. We group all the cells we
have studied, say 1000 of them,
into seven arbitrary groups,
according to the relative
effectiveness of the two eyes;
we then compare their
numbers, as shown in the two
bar graphs to the left. At a
glance the histograms tell us
how the distribution differs
between cat and monkey: that
in both species, binocular cells
are common, with each eye
well represented (roughly
equally, in the monkey); that
in cats, binocular cells are very
abundant; that in macaques,
monocular and binocular cells
are about equally common, but
that binocular cells often favor
one eye strongly (groups 2 and
5).