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After these models were
originally proposed, Geoffery
Henry, in Canberra, Australia,
discovered end-stopped simple
cells, presumably with the
receptive-field arrangement
shown to the left. For such a
cell, the wiring would be
analogous to our first diagram,
except that the input would be
from simple rather than from
complex cells. Complex end-
stopped cells could thus arise by
excitatory input from one set of
complex cells and inhibitory
input from another set, as in
the diagrams seen earlier, or by
convergent input from many
end-stopped simple cells.
This end-stopped simple cell is
assumed to result from
convergent input from three
ordinary simple cells. (One cell,
with the middle on-center
field, could excite the cell in
question; the two others could
be off center and also excite or
be on center and inhibit.)
Alternatively, the input to this
cell could come directly from
center-surround cells, by some
more elaborate version of the
process illustrated in the first
receptive field wiring diagram
seen earlier.