Follow-up question to Podcast 1 with Jeff (location, orientation, and attention)

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To make this clear, this is not about the layers in a given section of cortex, this is about how the areas of the cortex are connected together with projecting fiber tracts.

Check this reference on the WHAT and WHERE streams starts with the seventh reference link:

What's the difference between layers and levels in the context of the HTM theory?

I will be the first to agree that naming in neuroscience could be better. As I understand it, the sheet of the cortex is composed of what is generally recognized as six layers. The outer layer (one furthest from the center of the brain) is called layer one The bottom is generally called layer six. These are not hard and fast divisions as the whole concept of what makes up a layer is pretty loose at this time. There are some that consider the thalamus as the 7th layer. This same sheet of the …