Avicenna's Doctrine of Cerebral Function
Dear all, I have been discussing with someone how sensory information was stored in Avicenna's ventricular doctrine. Specifically, we have been discussing whether or not he actually states that images were stored spatially. We have reason to believe that he would have thought that the faculty of imaginatio stored things in the same form as the sensus communis received them, but we are unable to find direct textual support. So, if he comments that any sense was stored in the way that it was perceived, that would support the idea that visual images were also stored spatially. Does anyone know of a specific reference? Thank You, Christopher Robinson University of Alabama-Birmingham