The physiology of stereopsis.

@article{Cumming2001ThePO,
  title={The physiology of stereopsis.},
  author={Bruce G. Cumming and Gregory C. DeAngelis},
  journal={Annual review of neuroscience},
  year={2001},
  volume={24},
  pages={
          203-38
        }
}
Binocular disparity provides the visual system with information concerning the three-dimensional layout of the environment. Recent physiological studies in the primary visual cortex provide a successful account of the mechanisms by which single neurons are able to signal disparity. This work also reveals that additional processing is required to make explicit the types of signal required for depth perception (such as the ability to match features correctly between the two monocular images… 
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