PSYC 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Inferior Temporal Gyrus, Agnosia, Face Perception
23 Jan 2016
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Structure and connectivity of the visual system, from retina to cortex. Lateral heniculate nucleus of the thalamus: mahnocellular o. Extra-striate cortex (the part of the cortex beyond the striate cortex, Models of object recognition (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) V1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Dissect and analyze for different cell types. Stimulate different brain areas and ask for percept. Brown & shafer, 1888: monkeys with temporal lesions could not understand what they saw. Kluver & bucy, 1938: while investigating mescalininduced hallucinations, kluver found temporal lesions lead to psychic blindness weird relation with object and what they are doing, he know what things are but does not understand them. Ferrier, 1875: in search for the visual center , linked visual function to parietal lobe damage. Holmes and horax, 1919: the patient that could not see depth. Fairly big gap until the 1960"s and 1970"s: lesions in inferotemporal cortex:
