It is a misconception that ANNs are based on human visual processing. Maybe "inspired by" is a better term. The 1959 paper "What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frogs

It is a misconception that ANNs are based on human visual processing. Maybe "inspired by" is a better term. The 1959 paper "What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frogs Brain" disproved the belief that ANNs have anything to do real neural networks.