Two-streams hypothesis
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The two-streams hypothesis is a model of the neural processing of vision as well as hearing. The hypothesis, given its initial characterisation in papers by Leslie Ungerleider and Mortimer Mishkin in
Connections of dorsal visual stream
Ventromedial view of visual stream
Ventolateral view of visual stream
Posterior parietal cortex
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The posterior parietal cortex plays an important role in planned movements, spatial reasoning, and attention.
Two-streams hypothesis
…to be involved in the guidance of actions and recognizing where objects are in space. The dorsal stream projects from the primary visual cortex to the posterior parietal cortex. It was initially termed the "where" pathway since it was thought that the dorsal stream processes information regarding the spatial properties of an…
The posterior parietal cortex (light green) is shown towards the rear of the parietal lobe.