[PSYCH 120A] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (96 pages long!)

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Information from the primary visual cortex is transmitted both to the ventral stream (what system) and to the dorsal (where/how system) Some evidence for areas in the brain specifically sensitive to higher-level organization such as faces, but they are still sensitive to other types of images. Monkeys are trained to learn that food is always under a pyramid structure. Ability to distinguish pyramid and brick is eliminated. * shows that the ventral stream helps monkey determine what he"s looking at. * but (in a ventral destroyed monkey), if you add another object (which acts as a landmark), the monkey can find the food. What kind of object vs where is the object in space. She can"t just copy them (because she can"t put the pieces together and build a representation) Really understand why things are evidence against this theory. Stimuli are filtered out after being analyzed for semantic content and others. We aren"t as sensitive to higher level stuff.