When we talk about the receptive field of a receptor cell or of a retinal ganglion cell, what are we are referring to? the area of the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus to which that cell projects its axons the location in the primary visual cortex where we will find neurons that the cell is connected to the part of the retina in which that cell is located the part of the visual field where a stimulus must be in order to make that cell respond

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