PSYB10H3 Chapter 3: PSYB10.CHAPTER3.odt
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Visual agnosia = see obj"s, but not know whtat they are. Chappell got this as result of severe brain dmg from hitting car. When chappell ran the memory specialist looking after him, he greeted him by his name. What he could recog. was faces, specially those that"re upright (behrmann, winocur & moscovitch) Team of memory specialist, and 2 neuropsygists formally studied chappell. Chappell"s recog ability also applies for photographs of faces, caricatures (pic/desrip. of person), & cartoon faces, faces made up of objs, but not able to recog. obj"s themselves. [4] to recog obj, must be able to. 3. match them to rep"ion of that obj stored in brain (internal repi"ion) Impaired wrt ability to integrate info rapidly, and match it to internal rep"ion. Ex. taking constituents of (pieces of it) and processing in brain, to find a match of the product (chair) w/in ur mind. Chappell describes its composure (brown w/ bits of silver.