PSYC 2031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Two-Streams Hypothesis, Parietal Lobe, Computer Vision

• School: University of Denver
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2031
• Professor: Sweeny Timothy

Document Summary

Can"t name objects but know what to do with them, can"t recall names that have been heard: apperceptive agnosia. Patient d. f. with a ventral stream lesion can"t tell the shape of an object, but knows how to put a letter in a mailbox. Same objects can have very different objects and different objects can have similar shapes (contours) Fusiform of the brain re 1. 2% to a new object/view, 0. 6% to the same view of the object seen before, 1. 2% to a new view of the same object. The left fusiform area regards these as the same objects, **cares about the identity of objects. The right fusiform area regards these as different objects, **cares about the shape of the objects. The cell responds at pretty much the same rate when seeing different views of the same object: the ventral pathway can be pretty speci c.