Chapter 21: Spatial Behavior Flashcards
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cognitive map
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- brain representation of environment
2
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ventral visual field
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- monitors our grasping space
3
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dorsal visual field
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- monitors our traveling space
4
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egocentric disorientation
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- posterior parietal damage
5
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heading disorientation
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- posterior cingulate damage
6
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landmark agnosia
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- lingual gyrus damage
7
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anterograde disorientation
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- parahippocampal gyrus
8
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spatial-mapping memory deficit
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- hippocampus damge
9
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six visual disorders bilateral parietal lesion
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- visual attention
- simultagnosia
- optic ataxia
- fixation problems
- gaze apraxia
- abnormal visual search
10
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cue learning
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- response to a specific clue
11
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taxon navigation
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- movement towards or away from a specific clue
12
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piloting
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- making course to a place without a direct clue or route
13
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cells for spatial navigation
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- place cells in hippocampus
- head-direction cells
- grid cells, represent surroundings, indicate size of space
14
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dual-contribution theory
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- spatial and episodic memory are seperated
- both located in hippocampus
15
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scene construction theory
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- hippocampus is neither distinctly spatial nor episodic
