PSY270H1 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 Notes

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Gillian Rowe

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Feature detectors: neurons that respond best to a specific stimulus: neurons that respond to specific visual features observing tree: light reflected retina representation of tree. modularity module: an area specialized for a specific function (ffa, ppa, and eba are examples) Ffa (fusiform face area): information perceiving faces: underside of temporal lobe, kanwisher et al. parahippocampal place area (ppa): activated by pictures presenting indoor and outdoor scenes. extrastriate body area (eba): activated by pictures of bodies and parts of bodies (not but faces) solved: brain, cerebral cortex: outer, squished part of brain most highly developed; most actual information processing happens in cc. Temporal: reasoning and planning touch, temperate, pain, and pressure auditory, and perceptual processing memory www. notesolution. com: occipital: asymmetrical: visual processing: hemispheric specialization: right hemisphere and left hemisphere, right lobe: spatial-relation functions; perception of rhythm, abstract or intuitive thought,