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Occipitotemporal Network for Face and Object Recognition Syndromes (Visual Network) Occipitoparietal and Provincial Hub Syndromes

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Approximately half of the human cerebral cortex is concerned with vision, and it usually supersedes other senses when there is conflict with other sensory inputs. Our visual system has developed predominance over the other senses, and vision focuses our attention. It has been hypothesized that attention is nature’s way of coping with the prodigious sensory input receiving a constant stream of information. We are subject to a profusion of sensory input, with the combined human sensory inputs receiving ~11 million bits of information per second. However, we can only process ~16–50 bits per second (0.0002%). The majority of decisions are therefore made at a non-conscious level [1, 2].

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Hoffmann, M. (2020). Occipitotemporal Network for Face and Object Recognition Syndromes (Visual Network) Occipitoparietal and Provincial Hub Syndromes. In: Clinical Mentation Evaluation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46324-3_11

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