Visual information arriving in the primary visual cortex is processed in the occipital lobe, and is then transmitted either down the dorsal pathway which projects visual information into the parietal lobe or along the ventral pathway which projects visual information into the temporal lobe (Dawson and Medler). It is hypothesized that the ventral pathway plays a major role in object identification. The visual information is transmitted to the temporal
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