E2 Chapter 6: Recognition

Question 1

Our amazing ability to recognize an object in countless situations

Answer 1

Object constancy

Question 2

Visual information emanating from an object varies as a function of following factors (3)

Answer 2

1. Viewing position
2. Illumination conditions
3. Context

Question 3

Sensory information depends highly on your ________________

Answer 3

Viewpoint

Question 4

The brain uses it’s _____________ to create assumption of visual scenes

Answer 4

experience

Question 5

A visual illusion that uses an anti-parallel wall to make a person seem much larger than another person

Answer 5

The Ames room

Question 6

Recognition is largely ______________ to illumination

Answer 6

insensitive (a dog in the shade is registered the same as a dog in darker conditions)

Question 7

Objects are rarely seen in _______________

Answer 7

Isolation

Question 8

People see objects associated with

Answer 8

it’s expected environment

Question 9

Much visual information goes in the ______, which is in the ___________ lobe

Answer 9

V1; occipital

Question 10

_____________ carry visual information to regions of the parietal and temporal cortex that are involved in visual recognition

Answer 10

Fasciculi

Question 11

The Ventral (What) pathway is also called the _________________ Stream

Answer 11

Occipitotemporal

Question 12

The Dorsal (Where) pathways is also called the ______________ stream

Answer 12

Occipitoparietal

Question 13

VenTral is the __________ pathway

Answer 13

whaT

Question 14

The ventral stream is specialized for

Answer 14

Object perception/recognition (determining what we are looking at)

Question 15

The Dorsal stream is specialized for

Answer 15

Object spatial perception (determining where the object is)

Question 16

The dorsal stream is also called the ___________ pathway

Answer 16

Where

Question 17

Are the “what” and “where” pathways limited to just vision?

Answer 17

NO they are also seen in audition

Question 18

Inhibit anterior auditory region caused deficits

Answer 18

in the pattern discrimination task

Question 19

Inhibit posterior auditory region caused deficits in

Answer 19

The localization task

Question 20

Patient DF had damage to which pathway? What did this do?

Answer 20

Ventral; Cannot name objects, recognize faces, or distinguish a square from a rectangle

Question 21

Patient DF could

Answer 21

Use vision to guide actions

Question 22

People with damage to the __________ stream can see objects but don’t integrate their vision with their arms/legs movement

Answer 22

Dorsal

Question 23

Ventral or Dorsal damage?
Patient cannot accurately reach out to grasp an object

Answer 23

Dorsal (deals with object localization)

Question 24

The inability to process sensory information even though the sense organs and memory are not defective

Answer 24

Agnosia

Question 25

Failure of perception that is limited to the visual modality (patients can perceive color/shape/motion, but cannot recognize objects/identify their uses)

Answer 25

Visual Agnosia

Question 26

What are the two types of agnosia we are focused on?

Answer 26

Visual and auditory processing

Question 27

What are the three major subtypes of visual agnosia?

Answer 27

1. Apperceptive 2. Integrative 3. Associative

Question 28

A form of agnosia associated with deficits in operation of higher-level perceptual analyses

Answer 28

Apperceptive

Question 29

A patient can recognize an object when it is in a usual perceptive viewpoint, but cannot when it is shifted to an uncommon one What type of visual agnosia is this?

Answer 29

Apperceptive

Question 30

If a patient can perceive parts of an object but cannot integrate them as a coherent whole, they most likely have what subtype of visual agnosia

Answer 30

Integrative

Question 31

An inability to link a percept with its semantic information, such as its name, property, or function

Answer 31

Associative visual agnosia

Question 32

A patient that can perceive objects in their visual field but cannot understand their meanings probably has what type of agnosia

Answer 32

Associative visual agnosia

Question 33

The matching-by-function test tests _____________ knowledge

Answer 33

Conceptual

Question 34

What tests are participants shown three images and asked to point to the two with similar functions

Answer 34

The matching-by-function

Question 35

Impairments on the matching-by-function test are common in which agnosia

Answer 35

Associative visual asnosia

Question 36

The failure to recognize faces

Answer 36

Prosopagnosia

Question 37

Prosopagnosia patients usually have lesions in which pathway

Answer 37

Ventral

Question 38

An abrupt loss in the ability to recognize faces caused by a neurological incident

Answer 38

Acquired prosopagnosia

Question 39

A lifetime impairment in face recognition that cannot be attributed to a known neuro condition

Answer 39

Congenital prosopagnosia (CP)

Question 40

Monozygotic twins are __________________ in cog functioning

Answer 40

Very similar

Question 41

Neuroimaging shows that there is electrical activity in the FFA in CP patients. Why can they not see faces?

Answer 41

The actual pathways of perceiving info in the FFA is impaired

Question 42

Austism patients show _________________ activity in the FFA

Answer 42

hypoactivity

Question 43

___________________________ support the hypothesis that different brain areas are used for processing face and object recognition seperately

Answer 43

Double dissociation

Question 44

C.K. had no _____________ recognition, but was able to see

Answer 44

Object; faces

Question 45

Facial recognition is accomplished by

Answer 45

Holistic processing

Question 46

Inversions of pictures to make some goofy ass images

Answer 46

Thatcher Illusion

Question 47

Who are more likely to have prosopagnosia if the other has it: Monozygotic or Dizygotic

Answer 47

Monozygotic

Question 48

What do monozygotic twins having a predisposition chance of CP prove?

Answer 48

That there is a genetic component to prosopagnosia