Stephan Anagnostaras (stephan at ucla.edu) wrote:
: something like half of the cortex is dedicated to processing vision. And
: a large component (the bulk of the frontal lobe) to movement. And 90% of
Here's another urban legend (though I am not sure the word urban is
really appropriate here) successfully propagated by vision people. It's
even at the beginning of a review paper by Maunsell if I remember
correctly.
A cortical region is declared 'visual' if it has strong responses
to a visual stimulation. So parts of cortex that have equally strong
responses to both visual and auditory stimuli are deemed visual by the
first scientist to map the area out. That's how people wind up being
convinced that we are mostly visual animals. Hopefully that perception will
be corrected in the next decade.
Didier
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