Gordon Holmes (1919) - original retinotopic map:

• Correlated Visual Field Defects with lesion locus

• Features of Map:

  Crossed organization
  
  • Left 17 --> RVF
  • Right 17 --> LVF
  Fovea: Disproportional representation
  • cortical magnification
  Inverted organization
  • Lower calcarine --> Upper VF
  • Upper calcarine --> Lower VF

• NOTE: Each visual cortex represents a visual field NOT an eye.

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