Form and content in the visual field of videogames
There is a fairly solid consensus now in cognitive science that visual information (and perhaps information from our other senses) takes two distinct pathways through the brain. The ventral pathway runs along the lower part of the brain, and carries information about things. This pathway focuses on what objects are: that is, what they’re called, what categories they fall under, and what they remind us of. It connects up with the language areas of the brain and those most closely associated with memory. It’s commonly called the what pathway.
