PSYC 2390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Parahippocampal Gyrus, Two-Streams Hypothesis, Temporal Lobe
22 Mar 2016
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Organizaion plays a central role in achieving the tasks of both processing speciic informaion and combining informaion to create coherent percepions. Spaial organizaion: refers to the way simuli at speciic locaions in the environment are represented by acivity at speciic locaions in the nervous system. When a picture is transformed into electrical signals, a new type of organizaion occurs in the form of electronic maps of the reina in structures higher up in the system. The electronic map on v1 (striate cortex: points on the reinal image cause acivity in the cortex. Can also record acivity of a neuron in cortex and determine the locaion of its recepive ield on the reina: reinotopic map. The electronic map of the reina on the cortex. This organized spaial map means that 2 points close together on an object and on the reina will acivate neurons close together in the brain.
