dorsal and ventral system Flashcards
1
Q
“what”
A
ventral stream
2
Q
“where”
A
dorsal stream
3
Q
“bottom up” processing
A
higher order processing takes place as information proceeds down the stream between brain areas
4
Q
individual direction
A
V1
5
Q
multiple directions
A
V5
6
Q
V5 lesion
A
akinetopsia
7
Q
higher dorsal stream processing
A
optic flow, smooth pursuit eye movement, segment moving objects from background, detect binocular disparity
8
Q
prosopagnosia
A
inability to recognize faces
9
Q
aperceptive agnosia
A
thought to be due to a disability in the construction of a stable representation of visual form, which impairs all high order recognition
10
Q
associative agnosia
A
perception somehow striped of its meaning
11
Q
akinetopsia
A
inability to detect motion - damage to MT
