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Cortical specification makes sense

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Sarah L. Pallas
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303 [email protected] http://www.gsu.edu/~bioslp

Abstract

Overwhelming evidence points to the existence of separate sensory channels in the nervous system. The power of this type of parallel organization is that information is first processed in neurons specialized to code it most efficiently. However, sensory pathways are convergent and divergent at each level as well, as is necessary to interpret multimodal and conflicting information.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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