Functional integration

Question 1

Name 2 ways in which computer performance compares with that of humans

Answer 1

1) Computers outperform chess players

2) Computers underperform at character and object recognition (humans are twice as good as neural networks)

Question 2

Name 4 abilities which make vision amazing

Answer 2

Object recognition from non-canonical (unfamiliar) views, invariant character recognition (I.e. which is unaffected by writing quality), colour constancy & binding

Question 3

Define a double dissociation

Answer 3

Damage to mechanism A impairs output A but leaves output B intact & damage to mechanism B impairs output B but leaves output A intact

Question 4

If grandmother cells exist where do they likely reside?

Answer 4

In the hippocampus in the MTL

Question 5

What do we mean by the laminar structure of visual cortex? Where is the stripe (especially dense cell layer) in V1?

Answer 5

It is composed of layers of different types of cell (with different dendritic trees) at contrasting densities. Layer 4c