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Professor Eberhardt Dodt asked me to provide an Introduction to this meeting and gave me a free hand in the choice of a subject. I was very touched by his courtesy and kind loyalty in remembrance and felt that something had to be done to express my appreciation of his proposition.
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Granit, R. (1974). The Concept ‘Receptive Field’. In: Dodt, E., Pearlman, J.T. (eds) XIth I.S.C.E.R.G. Symposium. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2340-5_2
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