Re: electric meme bombs

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri 18 Oct 2002 - 17:06:51 GMT

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    > >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 19:07:41 -0500
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    > > > >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)
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    > > > > > Scott replies:
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    > > > > > 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.
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    > > > >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.
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    > > > 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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    > >I think that they're different names for the same feature.
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    > The lateral fissure and the central sulcus are synonymous? I most
    > certainly think NOT. Consult a basic anatomical diagram of the brain
    > found in many physio psych or human anatomy books. A glossary in
    > Galluscio's _Biological Psychology_ (at the end of chapter 2) places
    > the central sulcus as divider between frontal and parietal lobes and
    > the lateral fissure (as Sylvian fissure) "between the temporal and the
    > frontal and parietal lobes".
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    > It was possible that you had something to say about the lateral
    > fissure that I wasn't aware of, since I'm extremely rusty on my neuro
    > stuff, but now that you can't distinguish between two very basic
    > neuroanatomical landmarks I'm thinking that's probably not the case
    > here.
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    I checked my BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY by James W. Kalat and I did indeed get the two features confused; the afferent and efferent nerves do indeed face off (and in a homuncular map kinda way) at the central sulcus, as you state. It demarks the interface between the motor-control precentral gyrus and the somatosensory postcentral gyrus.
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    > ref:
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    > Galluscio EH. 1990. Biological Psychology. MacMillan Publishing
    > Company. New York
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