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what is the extra striate cortex?
The region of the cortex bordering the primary visual cortex and containing multiple areas involved in visual processing
What are what and where pathways?
where pathway is concerned with the locations and shapes of objects but not their names or functions
what pathway is concerned with the names and functions of objects regardless of location
what is the inferotemporal cortex?
part of the cerebral cortex in the lower portion of the temporal love, important for object recognition
What is a lesion?
n) a region of damaged brain
v) to destroy a section of the brain
What is agnosia?
failure to recognitive objects even tough you can see them
what are the characteristics of IT neurons
very large, don’t respond well to spots or lines, do respond well to stimuli such a s hands, faces and objets
what is mid level vision?
a loosely defined stage of visual processing that comes after basic features have been extracted from the image (low level) an before object recognition and scene understanding (high level)
involves perception of edjes and surfaces
What is an illusory contour
a contour that is perceived even though nothing changes from one side of the contour to the other
what is gestalt psychology?
the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
how to animals exploit gestalt grouping principles
through camouflage to confuse the observer
