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| The study of how the brain enables the mind. |
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| A cell of the nervous system |
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| Support cell of the nervous system - connector, produces myelin, creates blood-brain barrier. |
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| Insulator of axons to prevent loss of electrical signal. |
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| Exposed axon between myelin. |
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| The brain is organized around 35 specific functions. Bigger parts of the skull correspond to bigger parts of the brain which show stronger characteristics. |
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| Measures cell structure/density of cells. |
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| Areas of the brain are different anatomically. |
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| Areas respond to different parts of visual field. |
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| Areas respond to different pitches. |
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| The limited region of space that a cell responds to. |
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| Where is the primary sensory region for taste? |
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| Gustatory cortex in the orbitofrontal cortex. |
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| Strengthening important pathways while unneeded connections get weaker. |
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| Patient results differ from the control in one of the two categories. |
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| Adds a neurological control to verify results. Works against the difficulty hypothesis and provides a model of cognition. |
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| Small. Deals with form, color, and texture. Poor temporal resolution, good spatial resolution. |
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| Big. Deals with motion and flicker. Good temporally (to track movement, poor spatially. |
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| A patient can localize stimuli in a scotoma despite having vision in that region. |
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| Can identify objects but not find them in space. Lesion in the "where" pathway - DORSAL pathway of PARIETAL lobe. |
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| Can know where something is but not what it is. Lesion in "what" pathway - VENTRAL pathway of TEMPORAL lobe |
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| Retina > photoreceptors > optic nerve > lateral geniculate nucleus > superior colliculus > primary visual cortex |
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| Unusual blending of visual features such as color and shape (alphabet is colors). |
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| Impaired motion perception due to cortical damage. |
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| Impaired color perception due to cortical damage - NOT color blindness (where you're missing photoreceptors). |
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| Failure to access semantic knowledge from visual input despite normal ability to perform operations required for object constancy |
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| Failure to organize a coherent idea about something due to a breakdown of object constancy (Can't recognize an object from a new angle). |
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| Difficulty Hypothesis - Propsopagnosia |
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| Face perception is simply more difficult than other discriminatons. |
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| Specialized Evolutionary Hypothesis - Prsopagnosia |
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| A part of the brain evolved to separately recognize faces due to the importance of facial recognition in humans. |
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| Farah's Analysis by Parts vs Holistic Processing |
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| FFA responds better to faces than parts. A person could recognize objects arranged to form a face but not the objects themselves. |
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| Facial recognition and categorical info about objects. |
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| Parahippocampal Place Area |
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| Important in recognizing and encoding scenes rather than faces. |
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