PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Parietal Lobe, Two-Streams Hypothesis, Frontal Lobe
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Imagines space: you can think of even though you can"t directly experience it right now. Spatial ability: when we process the position, direction, or movement of objects. Real space: what you can sense right now. The most basic spatial ability is the ability to localize a point in space. Normal people can identify the location of a dot more readily when it occurs in the left visual field. Left visual field advantage at seeing the dot is due to right hemisphere spatial superiority. The right hemisphere appears to be involved with the recall of spatial location info. The ability to determine relative position of an object known as depth perception is another very basic spatial ability. Local depth perception is not as simple: the determination of which objects is in front of another shows a left visual field advantage in normal, whereas both right and left hemisphere lesions disrupts local depth perception.
