From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Fri Apr 05 2002 - 03:47:50 MST
"Constantly" is not the same as "instantaneously". I maintain that there might
be something to some of this laterality jazz, even though most of us have
never had Dr. Phibes do a commisurotomy on us.
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 03:31 PM 4/5/02 +1000, Alejandro wrote:
>
> >IIRC, there's signals going from both eyes to
> >both hemispheres, but the right side of each eye goe to the left
> >hemisphere, and the left side from each eye goe to the right hemisphere.
>
> Yep. But note that as we move our heads, information about the world tends
> to be captured by both sides at different times (except, of course, when
> sitting numbly in front of a screen), and moreover the posterior of the
> corpus callosum connection between hemispheres, the splenium, exchanges
> information between the two halves. So visual data is constantly integrated
> across the hemispheres.
>
> Damien Broderick
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