Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience Computational Neuroscience

Abstract

the brain where we would expect dorsal/ventral differences to be highly salient. Those two structures are anterior inferotemporal cortex (AIT) and lateral intraparietal cortex (LIP), studied under identical task conditions. This complements a previous report in which we demonstrated major differences at a population level of analysis in shape encoding within those two structures (Lehky and Sereno, 2007). Under one influential framework for understanding dorsal/ven-tral differences, ventral processing is viewed as oriented toward perception and memory, while dorsal processing is more oriented Within that framework, both dorsal and ventral visual structures contain spatial information, but the kind of spatial information differs. Dorsal spatial representations may be predominantly egocen