In their studies on vision, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel found that
A) many areas of the retina can stimulate a single cell in the visual cortex.
B) cells in the visual cortex respond to a receptive field on the retina.
C) cats can see bars of light at specific orientations only.
D) simple cells make connections to complex cells in the visual cortex.
E) visual information crosses over the optic chiasm.

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Hubel and Wiesel discovered that cells in the visual cortex respond to a receptive field on the retina, meaning that certain areas of the visual field activate particular cells in the brain. They also found that different cells in the visual cortex had different receptive field properties, such as detecting edges of a certain orientation or movement in a certain direction.

In Their Studies on Vision, David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel