What do you like better, the ventral (purple, what, temporal) or the dorsal (green, where, parietal) stream? What do you like better, the parvo (ventral, colour, shape, associations) or magno (dorsal, edges, discontinuities, spatial relations) pathway? Hint: they've probably got more in common than people originally thought. Confession: I'll never learn these terms, but at least now that I've made this post I can come back here and look at them.

ventral/dorsal 2
Thanks to wikipedia for the very helpful diagram.

- sally mckay 10-21-2008 2:47 am

When you are working with color, shape, and associations you are making Parvo Aart. Ha ha.
- tom moody 10-21-2008 3:49 am


Do we have to choose right away?
- L.M. 10-21-2008 4:08 am


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Will this help you to remember?
- L.M. 10-21-2008 7:05 am


Good one, Tom!

LM, I wish my neck was as resilient as that blue guy's neck.
- sally mckay 10-21-2008 12:03 pm


But your brain would be just fine?
- L.M. 10-21-2008 1:26 pm


If it ain't fixed, ya can't break it.
- sally mckay 10-21-2008 2:23 pm


My brain hurts.
- tino (guest) 10-21-2008 5:02 pm


I pick none of the above
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2401551&page=1
- joeter (guest) 10-21-2008 5:10 pm


LM's gif is anatomically correct:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Here-comes-the-fat-one

I will get to work on making my tongue see, or at the very least start a band called "Your Tongue Can See"
- rob (guest) 10-21-2008 6:56 pm


Quote from Joester's link: "We've been using the tongue since we were born. It's easily accessible; it's a wet milieu, so it's a nice conductor." mmmm-hm!

But I think you still need magno parvo dorsal ventral, it's just that the tongue will start off the inputs instead of the retina.
- sally mckay 10-21-2008 8:09 pm


Mangos? I love Mangos!
- mnobody (guest) 10-23-2008 1:34 am





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