The visual system is organized in stages of information processing and anatomical organization such that visual signals transduced in the retina and sent via the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus to the visual cortex continues to be processed in the brain primarily through successive, serial processing from one stage (e.g., V1) before being passed to a next stage, where each stage extracts specific information about the signals. What is this phenomenon called?
1) Visual hierarchy
2) Parallel processing
3) Interocular suppression