PSY318H5 Study Guide - Prosopagnosia, Quadrantanopia, Visual Search
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Struck by a bullet in the back of his brain. Lost sight in the right visual field but maintained partial vision in left visual field. Could accurately guess about the presence or absence of light. No clear division on lateral surface of brain. Upper and lower fields may have different functions. Laminar organization most distinct of all cortical areas (striate cortex) Vision-related areas in the brain make up about 55% of the total cortex in monkeys. Multiple visual regions in the temporal, parietal, and frontal lobes. Differences among ventral-stream regions are a matter of degree of activity, not mere presence of activity. Five categories of vision: vision for action. We are very good at recognizing and discriminating stimuli. E. g. , temporal lobes for biologically significant information, such as faces, as well as regions for objects and places: visual space. Objects have location both relative to an individual (e) and relative to one another (a)
