Do simple or complex cells dominate the output of V1?

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I don’t know the answer but I suggest reading this:

Notes: Two papers on receptive fields in Cat V1

Here are my notes on the following papers: Laminar differences in receptive field properties of cells in cat primary visual cortex, Gilbert (1977) Receptive field structure varies with layer in the primary visual cortex Martinez, Wang, Reid, Pillai, Alonso, Sommer, Hirsch (2005) I also use some information from: The Role of Horizontal Connections in Generating Long Receptive Fields in the Cat Visual Cortex Bolz, Gilbert (1989) These notes leave out a lot, but I’ve tried to capture some …

The Thousand Brains Theory predicts the answer will likely be the same in V1 and other regions as well.