Haxby in 1994 further illustrated that the hierarchical organization of the visual cortical area can be further broken

down into two distinct hierarchically organized pathways, namely the ventral and dorsal streams (Ungerleider and Haxby, 1994). The two distinct pathways (Fig. 3.2), namely, the dorsel stream, is shown in green, and the ventral stream, is shown in red (Ungerleider and Haxby, 1994). Leslie G. Ungerleider, from the National Institute of Mental Hospital, is BU/CNS Celest Distinguished guest speaker in December 2006. Their figure has been heavily cited and studied. Most visual cortex models are developed based on this diagram. The ventral stream of visual cortex is often referred to as the what pathway because it is widely believed to be associated with form recognition and object representation (Kandel et al., 2000). The dorsal stream of the visual cortex is often referred to as the where pathway as it is often believed to associate with the direction and orientation of an object location. Figure 3.3 shows another perspective of the hierarchal organization of the visual cortex in simple block form. Figure 3.3 on the right illustrates the fact that the visual cortex is physically