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light bounces off objects and travels through the lens of the eye. when light exits the lens it is inverted, so things to your right are projected on the left side of the retina, the left retinae then communicate contralaterally to the right optical cortex.

sensory field is the snapshot state of each neuron in a 2-d array. cortical field is same but it is now destined for processing.

left and right fields differ by paralax and this difference is used, to construct a 3-d percept



I thought by "cortical" you were referring to the cerebral cortex.


yes cortical in this case is applied to the cortical structure, of the optic lobes of the cerebrum, summarized as optical cortex

field is the informatic state of all the neural elements, involved.

note: these are terms applied in the context of neuroscience.




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