PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Hemianopsia, Fovea Centralis, Visual Cortex

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 330
• Professor: Richard Wright

Document Summary

Part 2 simultagnosia difficult making sense of more than one thing in the visual field. Part 3 attentional dyslexia - can occur due to left hemisphere damage. There"s a lot of answers we don"t have yet. A (means someone has a problem with something) op (optical) sounds like a visual deficit. Hemianopia: a problem processing information in one of the two visual fields. Left functioning is great you can see fine on the right side (opposites). Blindsight occurs due to damage to the visual cortex. They cant see things in one of the fields, blindsight sounds weird what happens with bs is that patients with this disorder are actually visually processing things in their blind field, at a low almost unconscious level. One of the things that can happen with a bs patient, you can put an object in their blind field, and ask them what it is they cant see it.