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Ventral versus dorsal pathway: The source of the semantic object/event and the syntactic noun/verb distinction?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Markus Werning*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, D-40225, Germanyhttp://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/thphil/werning

Abstract:

Experimental data suggest that the division between the visual ventral and dorsal pathways may indeed indicate that static and dynamical information is processed separately. Contrary to Hurford, it is suggested that the ventral pathway primarily generates representations of objects, whereas the dorsal pathway produces representations of events. The semantic object/event distinction may relate to the morpho-syntactic noun/verb distinction.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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