PSYC 3265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Visual Agnosia, Agnosia, Frontal Lobe

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3265
• Professor: Norman Park

Document Summary

Lecture 8 representation of every day objects partial overlap stimuli get activated (inanimate, animate objects) Then put ppl in scanner and matched pictures of novel tools before and. Different brain regions associated with storage of different attributes of a stimulus not new. After similar brain regions were activated for novel tools as are activated. Brain region activated when skilfully using tool basal ganglia. Alzheimer"s damage to cortical regions of the brain; progressive (level of functioning keeps: has to be deficit in 2 or more areas of cognition, at least one of which is memory to. Functional experience changes brain representation; there is specialized circuitry for learning specific sensory and motor related properties of objects. Actually have to use the tool to gain skill, cannot observe someone else: different types of dementia differ in terms of neuropathology and the behavioural they did not retain the skill over time.