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cortex is nothing short of the renunciation of the localistic conception 

 as regards the most important portion of the central visual apparatus, 

 a conception otherwise eminently and successfully maintained by 

 Wilbrand, and an approach to the views of Monakow, Goldstein and 

 the "Gestalt" psychologists on a multiple or a "diffuse" cortical 

 projection of the macula and of the entire retina, acting as a 

 "dynamic" whole. 



The few examples mentioned in the foregoing pages should suffice 

 to illustrate the uncertainties existing even in respect to cardinal 

 features of the organization and function of the afferent systems of 

 the cerebrum. At the same time this should be ample justification for 

 the present experimental studies. 



