From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri 18 Oct 2002 - 00:04:27 GMT
>From: joedees@bellsouth.net
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk, fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: electric meme bombs
>Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:53:50 -0500
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> > Joe Dees wrote:
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> > (bq)"We know in what order the afferent and efferent nerves face off
> > across the Sylvan fissure, and which parts of the body they sense and
> > move."(eq)
> >
> > Scott replies:
> >
> > Isn't the "Syvian fissure" also called the "lateral fissure"? Could
> > you explain the above in a little more detail, especially about the
> > sensation and movement of body parts? I have this nagging vision of a
> > distorted "homunculus" along the fissure of Rolando (aka central
> > sulcus between precentral and post central gyri) that must be clouding
> > my judgement here.
> >
>There is indeed a distorted map of the body imposed upon the fissure,
>just as there is a locational map imposed upon the occipital lobe
>responsible for visual registry. Perhaps things really are simpler than
>we have previously supposed, at least until we get into the associative
>cortex.
>
But you haven't elaborated on what you were saying above about the lateral
fissure. Were you thinking about the central sulcus instead?
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