PSY280H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fusiform Face Area, Parahippocampal Gyrus, Rubin Vase
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Beyond v1 is the extrastriate cortex: the region of cortex bordering areas, and the naming convention breaks down pretty rapidly: v2, v3, etc. Although they are not a simple chain of processing. Use brain maps to differentiate visual areas: cells in an area might all be concerned with one function, and that function is different from what neighbouring cells find interesting. Chapter 4 perceiving and recognizing objects what and where pathways. Homologous regions: brain regions that appear to have the same. Cells respond to very specific objects and react to nothing else. Sometimes agnosias can be quite specific function in different species (jennifer aniston: prosopagnosia: inability to recognize faces, subdivisions of agnosia: ability to recognize anime objects but not inanimate objects. The what pathway moves through a succession of stages, building a general representation of an object out of very specific spots, lines, and bars that interest the cells in the retina, kgn, and v1.
