Visual information processing contains two opposite needs. There is both a need to comprehend the richness of the visual world and a need to extract only pertinent visual information to guide thoughts and behavior at a given moment. I argue that these two aspects of visual processing are mediated by two complementary visual systems in the primate brain-specifically, the occipitotemporal cortex (OTC) and the posterior parietal cortex (PPC). The role of OTC in visual processing has been documented extensively by decades of neuroscience research. I review here recent evidence from human imaging and monkey neurophysiology studies to highlight the role of PPC in adaptive visual processing. I first document the diverse array of visual representations found in PPC. I then describe the adaptive nature of visual representation in PPC by contrasting visual processing in OTC and PPC and by showing that visual representations in PPC largely originate from OTC.

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两个视觉系统的故事：灵长类大脑中的不变和自适应视觉信息表示。

视觉信息处理包含两个相反的需求。既需要理解视觉世界的丰富性，又需要仅提取相关的视觉信息来指导给定时刻的思想和行为。我认为视觉处理的这两个方面是由灵长类动物大脑中的两个互补视觉系统介导的，分别是枕颞皮（OTC）和后顶叶皮层（PPC）。数十年来的神经科学研究已经广泛记录了OTC在视觉处理中的作用。我在这里回顾了来自人类成像和猴子神经生理学研究的最新证据，以强调PPC在自适应视觉处理中的作用。我首先记录了PPC中各种视觉表示形式。