PSYC 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Visual Agnosia, Template Matching, Agnosia
25 Apr 2012
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Visual agnosia: a deficiency in the ability to recognize visual information despite being able to see. No sensory impairment, but can"t cognitively interpret visual information. Visual recognition not always completely impaired specific to visual domain, objects can be identified by touch. Associative agnosia: a form of agnosia marked by a difficulty naming objects can"t identify objects, but can draw them. Time spaces: the perceptual experience of time units such as days of the week or months of the year as occupying spatial location outside of the body. Illustration of how a perceptual experience can sometimes be very different from the sensory stimulation. Perception: processing sensory information such that it produces a meaningful understanding of the information. Important to distinguish between the external environment and the internal knowledge of the observer. Both the environment and the observer"s knowledge contribute to the perception. Stimulus: an entity in the external environment that can be perceived by an observer.
