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🎨Margaret Livingstone

Vision, art and how cortex separates colour, form and motion.

Also called: visual streams

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vision and artFocus
74/100Research
66/100Awareness
49/100Complexity
39/100Clinical
33/100Debate

Margaret Livingstone sits at the centre of vision and art — studied across molecules, circuits, behaviour and clinic.

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74ResearchEditorial 0–100 browsing aid within this atlas.
66AwarenessEditorial 0–100 browsing aid within this atlas.
49ComplexityEditorial 0–100 browsing aid within this atlas.
39Clinical weightEditorial 0–100 browsing aid within this atlas.

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  • Research74
  • Awareness66
  • Complexity49
  • Clinical weight39
  • Plasticity81
  • Live debate33

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Sources & research

  1. Segregation of form, color, movement, and depth: anatomy, physiology, and perceptionLivingstone M; Hubel D · 1988 · ScienceDOIPubMed
  2. Vision and art: the biology of seeingLivingstone M · 2002 · Abrams

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