PSYC 3312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Superior Temporal Sulcus, Fusiform Face Area, Inferior Temporal Gyrus
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Fatigue or adaptation causes: firing rate decrease, neuron fire less when stimulus immediately presented again. Selective only neurons that respond to the specific stimulus adapt. What is the sensitivity if the threshold is low: the sensitivity would be high when the threshold is low. Neuroplasticity: the brain is still able to be molded differently. Cats were presented horizontal lines and neurons fired. Animal put into environment and overtime become primed to the stimulus. Inferotemporal (it) cortex: tested on monkeys, removing it cortex from monkeys showed that it effected the monkey"s ability to tell the difference between different objects. Prosopagnosia: determine that it is a face and whether it is a face or not. Fusiform face area: inability to recognize faces: area of the face that get damaged prosopagnosia, ex. Sensory coding the idea there are things we experience in our environment that activates specific. Specificity coding: specific neurons responding to specific stimuli neurons.
