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What is a receptive field

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Response in a visual neurons to a stimulus that is presented in a specific region of space

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What is a retinotopic map

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A visualisation that shows neural activity in response to visual cues

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Do next door parts of the visual cortex respond to stimulus in next door bits of visual space

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Yes

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What is the optic nerve made up of

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Axons of the ganglion cells

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Where do medial axons intersect in the optic nerve

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Optic ciasm

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Do medial (nasal) neurons cross at the optic chiasm

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Yes

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Do temporal (lateral) neurons cross at the optic chiasm

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No

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What region of the visual cortex is sensitive to colour

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V4

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Do different regions of the visual cortex have different retinotopic maps

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Yes

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Do full retinotopic maps contain a representation of an entire contralateral hemifield

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Yes

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Where is V1 located

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Calcarine sulcus

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What stimulus is V4 sensistive to?

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Colour

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Is conscious perception linked to lower or higher areas of activity

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Higher

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Do early sensory regions “see through” illusions

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Yes

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In secondary areas, how can perception be elicited

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  • Visual stimulus

- Direct electrical stimulation of the cortex

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What is achromatopsia

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Inability to perceive colour

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Do lesions to V4 lead to deficits in shape perception

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Yes

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What is akinetopsia

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An impairment in the ability to perceive motion

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Damage to what region leads to akinetopsia

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V5

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Does disruption at V1 cause problems sooner than disruption at V5

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No! There is a direct connection between the optic nerve and V5

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What damage is more significant to V5: unilateral or bilateral

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Bilateral

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What region is responsible for motion

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V5(MT)

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What region is responsible for vision

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V1

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What region is responsible for processing whole objects

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V3

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Does V4 process complex shapes as well as colour
Yes
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What is object constancy
Ability to recognise objects in different context despite variation in physical stimulus
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What is the "What" stream of visual perception
The ventral (occipitotemporal) stream
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What is the "Where" stream of visual perception
The dorsal (occipitoparietal) stream
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What pathway does the ventral stream take
From the occipital striate cortex to the temporal lobe
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What pathway does the dorsal stream take
From the occipital striate crotex to the parietal lobe
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What is another name for the ventral stream
The inferior longitudinal fasciculus
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What is another name for the dorsal stream
The superior longitudinal fasciculus
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What is the main difference between the ventral and dorsal streams
The dorsal focuses on things, while the ventral is peripheral
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What area do dorsal neurons receptive fields focus encompass
The fovea (centre region)
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What is the breakup of ventral neurons
40% fovea, 60% elsewhere
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Does the ventral stream get more detailed the further along you go
Yes
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What stream is more important for guiding interaction with objects
The dorsal stream
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What problems might patients with lesions in the ventral stream face
They may be unable to identify objects but use the visual info to guide movement (telephone/clock case study)
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What problems might patients with optic ataxia (lesions to the parietal cortex) face
They may be able to identify objects but cannot use visual info to guide action
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What is a delayed matching to sample experiment
Monkeys must pick out one object out of two to get a reward thereby engaging the ventral "what" stream
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What is a land mark discrimination problem
Monkeys must choose a location to get a reward thereby engaging the dorsal "where" stream
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Do unilateral lesions produce apparent deficits in the dorsal or ventral streams
No.
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Do bilateral lesions produce apparent deficits in the dorsal or ventral streams
Yes
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Is there cross-talk across hemispheres via the corpus callosum in the dorsal and ventral streams
Yes
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What is the primary area of the brain for processing objects
The Lateral occipital complex
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How was the lateral occipital complex discovered
PET that controlled for scrambled objects and familiar objects
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Do visual processing areas have connection to memory areas
Yes
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What is the repetition suppression effect
Lower BOLD response in second presentation.
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What does the repetition suppression effect represent
Perhaps increased neural efficiency
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Is the lateral occipital complex sensitive to texture or shape changes in infants
Shape
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What is a gnostic unit
A neuron that recognises a complex object (the grandmother cell)
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What is the hierarchical coding hyptohesis
Perception of elementary features is combined to create an object that can be recognised by gnostic units
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What is the ensemble coding hypotheseis
Objects are defined by simultaneous activation of a set of defining properties
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What is top-down facilitation
Orbitofrontal cortex predicts an object from partial visual input then it goes to the ventral stream for object recognition
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What is decoding
Looking at brain activity and predicting stimulus
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What is specificity
Certain brain areas are responsible for facial recognition
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What brain areas are responsible for movement information about the face such as direction of gaze and emotive expression
The right STS
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What brain areas are responsible for invariant features such as eye spacing
Ventral face pathway
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What brain areas are responsible for the face
Fusiform face area
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What area is responsible for scenes
Parahippocampal place area
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What areas are responsible for bodies
Extrastriate body area and fusiform body area
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What is view invariance
The ability to differentiate beween ambiguous cirucmstances - see things from any angle
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What is recognition by components?
The ability to infer from features (geons) basic 3D objects
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What is apperceptive visual agnosia
Cant put the whole together but can do basic components
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Lesions to what area lead to apperceptive visual agnosia
Ventral right posterior
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What is integrative visual agnosia
Can perceive parts but not the whole. Difficulty with overlap
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What is associative visual agnosia
Can perceive objects with visual system but can't give them meaning. There is no coneptual knowledge
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Lesions to what area lead to associative visual agnosia
Left posterior
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What is the sensory/functional hypothesis
Conceptual knowledge comes from the sensory input and motor input (for objects) - these dependent on the relevant neural regions
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What is the domain sepcific hypothesis
Conceptual knowledge organisaed by evolutionary categories
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What is prosopagnosia
The inability to recognise faces
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How does prosopagnosia usually occur
Bilateral lesions in the ventral pathway especially the occipital and FFA

PSY4170 - Neuroscience of Cognition and Behaviour (8 decks)

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