Lecture 3 Flashcards
(30 cards)
What is prosopagnosia?
a) A failure to recognize individual objects
b) A failure to recognize individual faces
c) A failure to recognize voices
d) A failure to recognize colors
B
How might someone with prosopagnosia recognize individuals?
a) By their facial features
b) By their voice or clothes
c) By their handwriting
d) By their favorite food
B
What did the patient in McNeil and Warrington (1993) report about their facial recognition and sheep recognition?
a) Good facial recognition, but poor sheep recognition
b) Bad facial recognition, but no problem recognizing sheep
c) Good facial and sheep recognition
d) Bad facial and sheep recognition
B
What does the case of Patient C.K. (Moscovitch et al., 1997) demonstrate?
a) He has object agnosia but fine face recognition
b) He has face agnosia but fine object recognition
c) He struggles with both face and object recognition
d) He recognizes faces and vegetables equally well
A
What does a double dissociation in recognition of faces and objects imply?
a) The same brain mechanism for faces and objects
b) Different brain mechanisms for assessing faces and objects
c) That only one type of agnosia can exist
d) That brain damage always affects both equally
B
What neuroimaging technique was used by Kanwisher et al. (1997) to identify brain areas active during face and object recognition?
a) EEG
b) PET scan
c) fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
d) CT scan
C
What is the “Fusiform Face Area” (FFA) known for?
a) Responding more to the sight of objects than faces
b) Responding more to the sight of houses than faces
c) Responding more to the sight of faces than objects
d) Responding equally to faces and objects
C
According to Grill-Spector et al. (2004), what does the Right Fusiform Area respond to?
a) Objects > faces
b) Objects of expertise (e.g., cars) > faces
c) Faces > objects of expertise (e.g., cars)
d) Houses > faces
C
What is the “Extrastriate Body Area” (EBA) known for, according to Downing et al. (2001)?
a) Responding more to objects than bodies
b) Responding more to faces than bodies
c) Responding more to bodies than objects
d) Responding more to houses than bodies
C
What are “grandmother cells” hypothesized to be?
a) Cells that respond to many instances of objects
b) Cells that only respond to individual faces that you are familiar with
c) Cells that only respond to general categories of objects
d) Cells that only respond to visual features
B
What is a problem with the “grandmother cell” hypothesis regarding cell numbers?
a) There are too many cells in the brain
b) Not enough cells in the brain
c) Cells are not specific enough
d) Cells are too general
B
In Tsao et al. (2006)’s monkey fMRI study, what percentage of tested cells in the face-responsive patch were selective for faces?
a) 50%
b) 75%
c) 99%
d) 10%
C
Where are cells that respond to the sights of faces located in the brain?
a) Posterior parts of the temporal cortex
b) In the back of the brain (feature detectors)
c) More anterior parts of the temporal cortex
d) In the frontal lobe
C
What visual cues are important for facial recognition?
a) Only internal features
b) Only external features
c) Internal features, external features, and configuration
d) Only hair color
C
According to Sadr et al. (2003), what features are more important for unfamiliar faces?
a) Internal features
b) External features
c) Configuration
d) None of the above
B
According to Sadr et al. (2003), what features are more important for familiar faces?
a) External features
b) Internal features
c) Configuration
d) None of the above
B
How do caricatures affect face recognition, especially for familiar faces?
a) They make recognition more difficult.
b) They have no effect on recognition.
c) They can improve recognition by exaggerating deviations from average
d) They confuse the brain.
C
What does the improvement of recognition with caricatures imply about how faces are coded?
a) Faces are coded by absolute features.
b) Faces are coded by internal features only.
c) Faces are coded by external features only.
d) Faces are coded by differences from average
D
In brain asymmetry studies of face perception, which side of a vertically split and mirror-imaged face looks more like the target?
a) Right (of view) + right
b) Left (of view) + left
c) Both sides equally
d) Neither side
B
Why is face perception biased towards one side of the face?
a) The left hemisphere is specialized for face processing.
b) The hippocampus plays a role
c) Visual information from the right side of the world has preferential access.
d) The right hemisphere is specialized for face processing
D
Which area in the brain, according to Nancy Kanwisher, is specialized for face processing and located in the right hemisphere?
a) Extrastriate Body Area
b) Parahippocampal Place Area
c) Fusiform Face Area
d) Mid Temporal Area
C
What kind of access does visual information from the left side of the world have to the specialized face processing equipment in the right brain?
a) Limited access
b) No access
c) Preferential access
d) Indirect access
C
What is the consequence of the right hemisphere’s specialization for face processing and the preferential access of left-side visual information?
a) People pay more attention to the left side of faces
b) People pay more attention to the right side of faces.
c) There is no noticeable bias.
d) Face recognition becomes more difficult
A
Judgements of face identity, sex, age, and attractiveness are biased towards which side of the face?
a) The right side
b) The top half
c) The left side of the face
d) The bottom half
C
