PSYC 4365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Parahippocampal Gyrus, Fusiform Face Area, Fusiform Gyrus
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Figure 7. 20 these images combine faces and houses. Figure 7. 19 functional mri reveals that different pieces of the cortex are activated by faces and by places. Attention could alter the tuning of a neural receptive field: receptive fields of neurons are not completely fixed and can change in response to attentional demands. Figure 7. 22 each of these images is a map of part of the visual field. Visual field defect: a portion of the visual field with no vision or with abnormal vision, typically resulting from damage to the visual nervous system. Neglect: in visual attention, the inability to attend to or respond to stimuli in the contralesional visual field: typically, neglect of the left visual field after damage to the right parietal lobe. Contralesional field: the visual field on the side opposite a brain lesion: for example, points to the left of fixation are contralesional to damage to the right hemisphere of the brain.
