PSYCH 2NF3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chap13.4: Hemianopsia, Prosopagnosia, Ken Wilber
28 Mar 2018
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5 categories of vision: vision for action. Parietal visual areas in the dorsal stream. Eye movements and selective attention: visual recognition. Location of an object relative to person (egocentric space) Location of an object relative to another (allocentric space: visual attention. Parietal lobes guide movements and temporal lobes help in object recognition. Right infarct (dead tissue) in the occipital lobe. Experienced blindsight - could perceive prior location once the light moved into a (cid:862)visual(cid:863) quadrant. Lost one-quarter of the fovea, poor vision in the upper left quadrant. Had an angioma in the right calcarine fissure. Cortical blindness - blindsight in which he reports no conscious awareness of seeing but can report movement and location of objects: case l. m. : v5 (mt) damage and the perception of movement. Vascular abnormality that produced bilateral posterior damage. Unable to intercept moving objects by using her hand: case v. k.
