Josh,
Thanks for the info.
I am writing papers on the neurological basis of what happens in the brains
of clients receiving hypnosis (more specifically NLP). From observation,
for example, if you ask a client, "WHY are you depressed?" you will receive
a lengthy, verbal, analytical report, full of beleifs and `nominalisations`
and `feeling` predicates..
If you were to ask, "HOW are you depressing yourself?" The report will be
much more sensory specific, and will primarily be laden with `visual`
linguistic predicates.
Thus, it makes me suppose that these question are dealt with in different
areas on the brain, but i might be wrong (it has happened before).
Regards,
Andrew Austin.
JoshCahoon <joshcahoon at cs.com> wrote in message
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> I can at least say that visual "where" vs "how/what" questions are
processed in
> different areas of the brain, and that these areas are pretty well
established.
> Most visual information goes from our retinas through the thalamus and on
to
> the primary visual cortex, in the occipital lobe. From there, two main
> processing streams are recognized: the dorsal stream, processing "where",
going
> up to the parietal lobe; and the ventral stream, processing "what/how"
> information, going down to the lower temporal lobes. As to how these
streams
> differ qualitatively...well, that's a much more involved issue, I think,
and
> one that I don't feel up to giving a good answer to. However, I can point
out
> that these two pathways have very different subsystems that have been
evidenced
> by brain-damaged patients, among other ways.
>> Why didn't I say anything about "why"? Because I don't know. Maybe you
could be
> more specific about what kind of why questions you're interested in. I
think
> they are diverse enough that different systems subserve different types of
why
> questions.
