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  2. Visual cortex - Wikipedia

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    The visual cortex of the brain is the area of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information. It is located in the occipital lobe. Sensory input originating from the eyes travels through the lateral geniculate nucleus in the thalamus and then reaches the visual cortex. The area of the visual cortex that receives the sensory input from ...

  3. Two-streams hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The two-streams hypothesis is a model of the neural processing of vision as well as hearing. [1] The hypothesis, given its initial characterisation in a paper by David Milner and Melvyn A. Goodale in 1992, argues that humans possess two distinct visual systems. [2] Recently there seems to be evidence of two distinct auditory systems as well. As ...

  4. Visual memory - Wikipedia

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    The dorsal stream (green) and ventral stream (purple) are both actively involved in visual memory. Both pathways originate in the visual cortex. There is a visual cortex in each hemisphere of the brain, much of which is located in the Occipital lobe. The left hemisphere visual cortex receives signals mainly from the right visual field and the ...

  5. Visual system - Wikipedia

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    The ventral stream, commonly referred to as the "what" stream, is involved in the recognition, identification and categorization of visual stimuli. Intraparietal sulcus (red) However, there is still much debate about the degree of specialization within these two pathways, since they are in fact heavily interconnected.

  6. Occipital lobe - Wikipedia

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    Primary visual cortex projects to the occipital areas of the ventral stream (visual area V2 and visual area V4), and the occipital areas of the dorsal streamvisual area V3, visual area MT (V5), and the dorsomedial area (DM). The ventral stream is known for processing the "what" in vision, while the dorsal stream handles the "where/how".

  7. Object recognition (cognitive science) - Wikipedia

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    The existence of these two separate visual processing pathways was first proposed by Ungerleider and Mishkin (1982) who, based on their lesion studies, suggested that the dorsal stream is involved in the processing of visual spatial information, such as object localization (where), and the ventral stream is involved in the processing of visual ...

  8. Sensory nervous system - Wikipedia

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    The dorsal stream includes areas V2 and V5, and is used in interpreting visual 'where' and 'how.' The ventral stream includes areas V2 and V4, and is used in interpreting 'what.' [21] Increases in task-negative activity are observed in the ventral attention network, after abrupt changes in sensory stimuli, [22] at the onset and offset of task ...

  9. Vision for perception and vision for action - Wikipedia

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    The second pathway, the ventral stream, processes information relating to shape, size, objects, orientation, and text. This is commonly known as the ‘what’ system. Visual stimuli in this system process ventrally from the primary visual cortex to the medial temporal lobe. In childhood development, vision for action and vision for perception ...