http://neurodudes.com/2005/08/12/more-than-mirror-neurons/ at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:16:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://neurodudes.com/2005/08/12/more-than-mirror-neurons/#comment-761 Will.Whim » Blog Archive » Multiple visual representations of objects Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:34:31 +0000 http://neurodudes.com/?p=148#comment-761 [...] More than mirror neurons? A summary of an study reported in Neuron: Most importantly, the study affirms that there really isn’t a single fundamental visual representation in the brain — the representation used to recognize an object is not the same as the representation used to pick up that object. Because of the different functions of these tasks, this probably doesn’t sound too surprising but, to me, it is surprising! What we consciously see is neurally separate from what our motor system is “seeing” and the break between the two pathways happens quite early in visual processing. [...] [...] More than mirror neurons? A summary of an study reported in Neuron: Most importantly, the study affirms that there really isn’t a single fundamental visual representation in the brain — the representation used to recognize an object is not the same as the representation used to pick up that object. Because of the different functions of these tasks, this probably doesn’t sound too surprising but, to me, it is surprising! What we consciously see is neurally separate from what our motor system is “seeing” and the break between the two pathways happens quite early in visual processing. [...]

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