PSYC 211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Fusiform Face Area, Perfect Sense, Indirect Pathway Of Movement
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Association cortex: tons od patterns of recognition, somatosensory association cortex + auditory association cortex + visual association cortex + premotor = all involved in understanding the meaning of the word. When people read verbs (arms,face,leg) thinking about what they mean, neurons in the motor association cortex with that part of the body will be activated. Written word perception (reading: diff forms of the what pathway. Contains neurons that will activate all the association that you gav with the word, without it, word have no meaning to us: fontal lobes. Line/edges/borders (our brain is obsess in finding them= use to lean where we are in space= capitalized in reading) Transcortical sensory aphasia: damage to posterior language area, failure to comprehend the meaning of words and inability to express thoughts with meaningful speech (speak intelligently, because words have no meaning, word recognition if fine, including: Readi(cid:374)g (cid:894)e. g. , (cid:396)ead out loud (cid:895) direct dyslexia.
