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(a) Sensory information carried by a single neuron is often ambiguous because of the limited amount of information present within the neuron's receptive field (dark grey circle). (b) If the receptive fields of multiple neurons (grey circles) are combined, the ambiguous information of a single neuron (dark grey circle) can be disambiguated and coherent percepts emerge.
