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ing response" to signals from the receptors (335). 

 Such activity would amount logically to an internal 

 representation of those features in the profusion of 

 incoming signals to which the nervous system is 

 adapted — either by virtue of its intrinsic organiza- 

 tion, or as the result of more recent exposures to the 

 environment. Probably, as we have seen, both in- 

 trinsic and acquired tendencies interact, particularly 

 in man. In the visual system, for instance, we would 

 conceive of internal activity as organized "to match 

 (in a sense, to cancel out, actively) the incoming 

 visual signals" (335, p. 41). 



At the present stage, this match-mismatch hypoth- 

 esis remains necessarily vague. It may seem pre- 



mature to introduce it into the study of perception, 

 but it might serve as a schema for one's own organiza- 

 tion of the problems of perception, and the role of 

 perceiving in complex coordinated behavior. These 

 questions take us a hopeless distance beyond the 

 known mechanisms of individual neurons, yet prob- 

 lems of patterning in behavior are identical with those 

 of neuronal interaction. After speaking of single 

 neurons, Adrian said (1, p. 93) "their behaviour in 

 the mass is quite another story, but this is for future 

 woik to decide." Perception, like coordinated move- 

 ment, would seem to be part of that "other story.' 

 It should be possible to tell all of it, if perceptual and 

 neurophysiologic studies continue to converge. 



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