PSYB55H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.2: Extrastriate Body Area, Fusiform Face Area, Parahippocampal Gyrus
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Analytic processing: perceptual analysis that emphasizes the component parts of an object. Category-specific deficits are deficits of object recognition that are restricted to certain classes of objects. Prosopagnosia is an inability to recognize faces that cannot be attributed to deterioration in intellectual function. Acquired alexia is characterized by reading problems that occur after a patient has a stroke or head trauma. Neurons in various areas of the monkey brain show selectivity for face stimuli. Similarly, specificity is observed in fmri studies, including an area in the fusiform gyrus of the temporal lobe, the fusiform face area, or ffa. Analytic processing is a form of perceptual analysis that emphasizes the component parts of an object, a mode of processing that is imp for reading. Holistic processing is a form of perceptual analysis that emphasizes the overall shape of an object, a mode of processing that is imp for face perception.
