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on 1/22/01 8:35 AM, Gatherer, D. (Derek) at
D.Gatherer@organon.nhe.akzonobel.nl wrote:
> Chris:
>> From neurological research it has been discovered that humans seem to derive
> meaning by processing data using the what/where dichotomy
>
> Derek:
> from what neurological research? A single reference will do.
While I don't support this language of dichotomization or meaning via
recursive dichotomization, that particular difference is well-known in the
visual system. Several synapses upstream from the primary cortex we find
one patch of tissue involved in identifying objects (I believe this is more
or less parietal tissue) while another patch is involved in locating objects
in space (and this, I believe, is more or less temporal tissue). You can
find a textbook-level discussion of this in Kosslyn and Koenig, Wet Mind --
which, incidentally, I recommend as a good fairly recent cognitive-oriented
textbook on human neuroscience.
Bill B
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