PSY 164 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Occipital Lobe, Hemispatial Neglect, Parietal Lobe
Document Summary
Scenographic (landmarks) vs. abstract (map) idea of navigation. Route-following (list) vs. wayfinding (compass) active method of navigation. How you think about space affects how you actually move through space. Toys you play with at home affects how you can do spatial transformations. Medial temporal lobe involved in memory. Keeping track of what objects look like. If the neuron likes perceiving baseballs, it"s going to like imagining baseballs. If the neuron doesn"t like perceiving faces, it"s not going to like imagining faces. Uses occipital lobe (vision) to do some processing. The closer you can get to the car, the wider your field of view. For a narrower field of view, you should be further away. Unilateral neglect (one-sided neglect: ex: drawing half of a daisy and a clock, ignores the left half of space, ex: can name the right side of the quad facing the playhouse, not the left.
