Visual Memory - Neuroanatomy

Neuroanatomy

In humans, areas specialized for visual object recognition in the ventral stream have a more inferior location in the temporal cortex, whereas areas specialized for the visual-spatial location of objects in the dorsal stream have a more superior location in the parietal cortex. However, this two streams hypothesis, although useful, is a simplification of the visual system because the two streams maintain intercommunications along their entire rostral course.

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