PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fusiform Face Area, Macular Degeneration, Foveola

• School: Emory University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Daniel Dilks

Document Summary

No, because his other hemisphere was totally normal. Larger group of people with deprived neurons: macular degeneration (md) They have extensive central retinal damage --photoreceptor death in fovea and depriving foveal cortex. Use bottom part of retina as new fixation (preferred retinal locus- Presented faces in prl (in lower left visual field usually) and blind region, and presented faces in fovea of control subject. For control: presentation in foveal cortex and fusiform face area. For control: presentation in lower left visual field activation above. In md: presentation in blind region (fovea) - nothing calcarine in right. In md: prestation in lower left visual field: activation above calcarine in right also activation in foveal cortex. So this is evidence for cortical reorganization in adult visual cortex. And, reorganization was found in 4 other cases. Donut scotoma- tiny center of fovea (foveola)