Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, <sentience@pobox.com>, writes:
> "The accessory optic system: The AOS, extensively studied in the
> rabbit, arises from a special class of ganglion cells, the cells of
> Dogiel, that are directionally selective and respond best to slow rates
> of movement. They project to the terminal nuclei which in turn project
> to the dorsal cap of Kooy of the inferior olive. The climbing fibers
> from the olive project to the flocculo-nodular lobe of the cerebellum
> from where the brain stem occulomotor centers are reached through the
> vestibular nuclei."
> -- MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, p. 866, "Visual Anatomy
> and Physiology".
Yes, I took a neurobiology class in college. In fact it was taught
by Roger Sperry, of split brain fame. He starts off the first lecture
with a "review" of basic brain anatomy. I never realized there were so
many named parts and structures in the brain! The whole lecture was one
name after another that I had never heard, most with no obvious reason
or rationale. I ended up dropping the class even though all the bio
majors said it had a rep for being easy.
Hal
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