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The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eyes are sound, you will have light for your whole body; if the eyes are bad, your whole body will be in darkness.

— Matthew 6:22–23, New English Bible

Vision is the dominant human sense. The processing of photic information begins in the retina, continues in subcortical visual centers, and reaches its greatest complexity in the cerebral cortex.¹ One characteristic of this processing is the segregation of information among visual pathways and centers. Features such as location, movement, form, and color are segregated, and thus visual perception may be selectively . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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