From: F. Frank LeFever <flefever at ix.netcom.com>:
>>The left hemispere of the cortex deals with the right visual field,
>>the right hemispere deals with both left and right.
>>COMMENT: the right hemisphere deals with the left visual field in
>exactly the same way that the left hemisphere deals with the right
>visual field, i.e. as being the cortical projection areas for left and
>right visual fields, respectively. What you may be thinking of
>(perhaps misunderstanding whatt you have read) is that the right
>hemisphere seems to be important for "attention" in both left and right
>visual fields, left and right somatosensory perception, etc.
According to Phantoms in the brain by VS Ramachandran, the
right brain knows enough about the right field of vision to prevent
left brain damage to lead to right field neglect.
>COMMENT: I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you
>really do know what you meant to say here, but suffer from left/right
>confusion or just get mixed up when you try to use words.
Thanks for helping out in my mix up, which it was...
>GENERAL COMMENT: a wise person knows what he knows and knows what he
>does not know. That is, he knows where his knowledge ends and his
...
Don't overdo it please
Mervyn
