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what is akinetopsia - case study LM

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unable to perceive motion

very specific of brain is damaged, MT or V5 - prcesses visual motion

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what are rods like

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sensitive in low light
lower acuity
colour blind
periphery of the retina

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what are cones like

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need more light
higher acuity
colour sensitive
in the fovea

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are there any cones or rods on the blind spot

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no

is where the optive nerve is

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explain the cells in the eye that transduce light to vision and begin relay to the brain

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photoreceptors (cones and rods)
bipolar cells next
ganglion cells to the optic nerve

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what brain areas recieve inputs from the optic nerve

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in the thalamus - laternal geniculate nucleus
in the cortex
V1 - primary visual projection area/ primary visual cortex in the occipital lobe

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explain what areas of the brain see what

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both eyes process both sides of the world

left visual cortex “sees” the right of the visual field and vice versa for the right

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what is lateral inhibition

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occurs in cells in the retina
each active cell inhibits its neighbours
this emphasizes the edges of stimuli

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so strips of gradually getting lighter shades of black

which side of the bar appear darkest

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the one next to the darker colour as patterns of lateral inhibition between neighbouring cells on the retina lead to that edge being enhanced and so appearing darker

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where do we place a single cell recording and what can we define about cision from it

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electrode placed just outside a neuron in the animals optic nerve or brain
used to define the cells receptive field

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what is the receptive field

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the size and shape of the area in the visual world to which that cell responds

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what did Hubel and Weisel discover

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specialized neurons in the brain with distinct receptive fields
eg centre surround cells - stimulus in centre = higher firing, stimulus in surrund = lower firing

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what do edge detectors do

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receptive to lines of particular orientation

-horizontal and vertical are the most common

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explain parallel processing

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divide and conquer

different cells process different areas of the visual world and different brian areas process this all simultaneously

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explain the role of the “what system” in parallel visual processing

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identification of objects

occipital-temporal pathway

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explain the role of the “where system” in parallel visual processing

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locations of objects and guiding our responses

occipital-parietal pathway

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what happens when occipital-temporal pathway is damaged

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visual agnosia
can describe object when shown it but cannot tell you what it is
dissconnection between object and recognition

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what happens when the occipital-parietal pathway is damaged

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problems with reaching for seen objects

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what do parvocellular cells do

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specialized for spatial analysis and detailed from

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what do magnocellular cells do

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specialization for motion analysis and depth perception

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what is the binding problem

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parallel processing splits up processing of our world

but we do not see the world as disjointed

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explain three things that help us solve the binding problem

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spatial positioning - reassembling of pieces of references position
neural synchrony - rythm of neurons that are firing in response to the same item tend to be in sync
attention is crucial for the binding of visual features - when attention is overloaded people make conjunction errors
simply no definte answers yet but this is some evidence

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explain conjunction errors

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seeing a blue H and red T but reporting a red H

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define sensation

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absorbing raw energy through our sensory organs

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define transduction
conversion of this energy to neural signlas
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define attention
concentration of mental energy to process incoming information
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define perception
selecting, organizing and interpreting these signals
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give a brief overview of going from sensation to perception
energy contains info about the world (but noisy, distorted etc) accessory structure modifies energy receptor transduces energy into neural respinse sensory nerve transmits the coded activity to the CNS thalamus processes and relays the neural response relayed to specialized areas of the cortex perception of the world
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what is perception
the process of recognising, organizing and interpreting information from the sense it is no an exact copy of the word based on our past experiences and expectations
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name two types of processing and how they work
``` bottom-up -perception starts with the senses -incoming raw data -energy registering on receptors top-down -perception may start in the brain -person's knowledge, experience, expectations shape perception ```
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explain the recognition by components theory
bottom-up theory of object perception we perceive objects entirely by perceiving their elementary features geons - 3D volumes objects are recognised when enough inforntaion is available to identify objects geons
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explain a piece of evidence that support biedermans recognition by components theory
perceptually degraded picture are better recongnised when geons are preserved
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explain the three things that makes geons special
discriminability - geaons can be distinguished from other geaons from almost all viewpoints resistance to visual noise - geons can be perceived in noisy conditions distinctiveness - 36 geons have been identified
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how geons are there
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how does top down processing generally work
making inferences based on context, guessing from experience and basing one perception on another quick automatic not conscious
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explain one study that showed top down processing
multiple personalities of the blob blurry pictures all ask you to identify three blobs from three diff blurry pictures each blurry picture makes you think the blob is something different when in fact it is exactly the same blob just rotated each time
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explain helmholtz's theory of unconscious interference
1860 top-down theory some of our perceptions are the result of unconscious assumptions we make about the environment we use out knowledge to unform our perceptions we infer much of what we know about the world likelihood principle - we perceive the world in the way that is most likely based on our past experineces. this is especially true when we dont have all the information so have to make some kind of inference
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explain the yanny vs laurel evidence
botoom up process - ability to hear certain frequencies (correlated with age) played a role top-down processes contribute to interpretation as well - previous experiences with the words, accents etc
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how do we percieve size with distance (explain both TD and BU)
bottom-up - size of image on the retina | top-down - the perceived distance of the object, the size of the object relative to other objects in the environment
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what is special about what hits the retina in depth perception
its a 2D image depth perception allows us to create mental images of objects in 3D and to judge distances it is present at least in part at birht in humans and other animals
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explain the visual cliff
test of early 3D perception most infants refuse to crawl across the visual cliff depth cue - pattern on the floor when they cannot crawl thery perceive it and get interested from as young as 6 weeks old social has a big context - will do what mums face tells them overall though there is fear of the visual cliff - so seems to perceive a kind of cliff so possess depth perception
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define binocular cues
our two eyes help us perceive depth
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explain retinal disparity
by comparing images from the two eyeballs the brain can calculate the distnace to the object being viewed used by 3D filmmakers is a bottom-up cue of depth perception
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what distances can retinal disparity differentiate between
1 to 10 ft
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what distances can monocular cues differentiate between
10 to 100 ft
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what are monocular cues
top-down cues of depth - they are based on knowledge w ehave about the world
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explain some things monocular cues help us with
``` relative size interposition relative motion light and shadow (this we learn) linear perspective ```
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perceptual constancy
``` size shape brightness colour things look different depending on the angle, distance and lighting however our perception is constant ```
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size constantcy explaine
we perceive the size of an object as constant from different distances retinal size will be different but we perceive the size as constant but context matters (eg moon illusion)
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brightness / colour constancy
colours may be the same but depending what they are next to changes our perception of their brightness and color eg the dress
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form perception and perceptual organization - old and new view
``` old = structuralism - perception involves adding up sensations new = gestalt - the perceptual whole is more than the sum of its parts ```
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form perception - how do we knoe where one object ends and the next begins?
figure-ground= organization of visual field into objects that stand out from their surroundings groupings - the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into meaningful groups (gestalt principles)
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name the 5 laws of peceptual organization
``` law of good continuation/ continuity law of good figure/ simplicity law of similarity law of proximity law of closure ```
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explain the law of good continuation
we tend to see shapes/ lines as being continuous even when occluded
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explain the law of good figure
every stimulus pattern is seen so the resulting structure is as simple as possible
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explain the law of similarity
similar things appear grouped together
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explain the law of proximity
things near each other appear grouped together
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explain the law of closure
we tend to perceive closed figures rather than incomplete ones
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positives and negative of gestalt laws
``` often provide accurate informtion about properties of the environment -refect experince -used unconsciously -occasionally misleading gestalt laws are heuristics ```
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explain the interactive neture of perceptual areas
remeber parallel processing | brain areas for basic visual features interact with brain areas for large scale form
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object recogition - feature models
might begin with features features - small elements that result from the organized perception of form feature detector neurons in the visual system
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what are the advntages of feature based models of object recognition
building blocks commonalities for variable objects evidence - play a role in visual search
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what is feature search
can use one feature like colour to find target
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what is conjunctive search
need to find combination of features to find target (colour and shape for example)
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what is serial search
search every stimulus one by one for target | reaction time depends on display size
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what is parallel search
target stimulus pops out from the rest | reaction time does not depend on display size (or is dependent to a much lesser degree
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neurological evidence for feature based object recognition
parietal cortex damage results in difficulty judging how more than one feature is bound together in objects either in -integrative agnosia (parietal cortex damage). -disruption of parietal cortex via transcrannial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in both cases subject can do a feature search but not a conjunctive search
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methodology for investigating word recognition
words presented very briefly (10-50ms) then masked | mask = jumble of letters / symbols that stops visual processing of the presented word
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three important findings about word recognition
word frequency effect - high frequency words recognised better - repetition priming effect - recently viewed words recognized better - word superiority effect - letters recognized better in the context of a word
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errors in word recognition are driven by...
probability likely to misread words predictably TPUM = TRUM or DRUM reverse errors however are rare - we dont take the pronouncable to the non-pronounceable
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what are feature nets
one possible way the visual system recognises words simple feature detects lead to letter detectors lead to word detectors sometimes referred to neural networks, have receptive fields and fire above a threshold but detectors do NOT represent individual neurons, more like a complex assembly of neurons
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how does the feature net explain repetition priming
recent firing = higher starting activation level -frequency leads to higher recency -repetition increases recency if the node has fired recently it is easier for it to fire a second time
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how does feature nets explain word superiority
must add a layer to feature nets - bigrams = grouping of two letters before letters put to make word (this addition is disputed by some researchers
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explain McClelland and Rumelhart's 1981 model of word recognition
a descendant of feature nets mushc more complex feature net with feedforward and feedback loops excitatory and inhibitory connections more like a brain
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what is the ventral stream
visual paths in the temporal cortex | specialised for identifying and recognising objects
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what is the dorsal stream
the visual path in the parietal cortex | helps the motor system to find objects and move towards them
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how do we use dissociation logic to understand complex systems in the brain
bascially studying malfunctions in the brain dmage to different areas of the brain cause very different deficits so can conclude that area is necessary for a specific function eg brain ablation allows scientists to damage specific areas of otherwise normal brains (monkeys or cats) = controlled damage allows for clear conclusions to be drawn
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explain single dissociation
one funciton is lost, another remains so has what but not where this would show that what and where rely on different mechanisms, although they may not operate totally independent of one another
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explain double dissociation
requires two individuals with different samage and opposite deficits indicates that the what and where streams must have different mechanisms AND operate independlty of one another
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what is visual agnosia
the inability to recognise objects despite satisfactory vision
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what areas of brain damage can cause visual agnosia
there are many types of visual agnosia occipital temporal parietl
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explain patient CK
brain damage leading to visual agnosia
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explain case study DF
carbon monoxide poisoning = damage to temporal lobe could not visually match card orientation BUT could mail card - so orientate a card through a slot dissociation between judgin orientation and coordinating vision and action -other patients with parietal lobe damage have opposite pattern
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the what pathway is for .... | the where pathway is for ....
``` what = perception where = action ```
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what is prosopagnosia
type of agnosia = face blindness damage to fusiform gyrus of the inferior temporal cortex object recognition in tack but there is face blindness different to Capgras
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houses and faces experiment that shows different objects may have different recognition systems
faces much worse at recognising upsidedown compared to houses
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holistic processing of faces experiment
composite faces (so top half one celebrity and bottom half another) harder to process just one when the faces are aligned than off centre shows we process faces holitically
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grandmother cell experiment
single cells have been found in human MTL that fire selectively for certain faces so jennifer anniston neuron found used single cell recording in humans who were undergoing surgery some cells also have preferences for animals, objects, scenes grandmother cell? most likey not but coding is more sparse than we previously believed
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so do we have a separate "face system"
not necessarily difference in processing appear when -interpreting faces specific indivisuals have to be recognised -confirgurations of component parts are importnat expertise!!
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explain Gauthier et al's Greebles
showed a significant increase in fusiform face area response to greebles after visual discrimination training - so had taught face expertise in greebles
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top down processing occurs ...........
in frontal area before bottom-up activation in occipital area when it is necessary

PSYC 105 - cognition (11 decks)

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