Agnosia

Question 1

Apperceptive vs. Associative Agnosia

Answer 1

Lissaeur 1890

Question 2

Apperceptive agnosias fail unusual view and exemplar object matching tasks

Answer 2

Warrington & Taylor 1978

Question 3

Apperceptive agnosiacs fail Efron shape task

Answer 3

Efron 1968

Question 4

HJA has problems segmenting shapes, (hairs and a handle), but could draw from memory- global recognition problem?

Answer 4

Humphreys and Riddoch 1987

Question 5

JB - muddies the waters of associative agnosia - poor semantic matching, but good discrimination

Answer 5

Riddoch and Humphreys 1987

Question 6

ELM - severe prosopagnosia and category deficits for living things

Answer 6

Arguin et al. 1996

Question 7

NA - Alzheimer’s, specific category deficits for living things

Answer 7

Funnel 2000

Question 8

Agnosia can be separated on a holistic-parts based continuum

Answer 8

Farah 1991

Question 9

Patient DF - two visual pathways, ventral and dorsal, where vs. what

Answer 9

Milner & Goodale 1995

Question 10

Many to many model - specificity for classes of objects - distributed system with overlapping neural circuits - words needed to be near language, so faces went to the right

Answer 10

Behrman and Platt 2013

Question 11

Must be independent underlying mechanisms due to double dissociations

Answer 11

Susilo and Duchaine 2013

Question 12

PDP models becoming more prominent, interconnected networks of simple units

Answer 12

Cox et al. 2015

Question 13

Inability to recognise people, objects, or places

Answer 13

Visual agnosia