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Lecture 7 - Spatial Behaviour Flashcards

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What problems can spatial disorientation englobed ?

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  • Problems finding the way, whether to go left or right
  • Problems recognizing places (until seeing distinguishing features)
  • Failure to use landmarks
  • Able to verbally describe known routes
  • Unable to locate cities & states on map
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What are the different types of space ?

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  • Body space
  • Grasping space
  • Distal space
  • Time space : autonoetic awareness & autobiographical memory
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What are the different brain areas involved in spatial behaviour ?

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  • Prefrontal cortex : executive & scene manipulation
  • Perirhinal cortex : object-based information
  • Hippocampus : event within a scene, scene contribution
  • Parahippocampal : scene-based information
  • Occipital cortex : visual information
  • Parietal cortex : Body-oriented information
    ATN : head direction
  • Retrospinal cortex : scene translation
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What are the different types of spatial behaviors ?

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  • Route following
  • Piloting
  • Food catching
    -Dead reckoning
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What are the different tests for spatial behavior ?

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  • Visualization tests
  • Orientation tests
  • Spatial memory tests
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What are the 3 possible disorders of spatial behavior ?

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  • Topographical disorientation : inability to find your way in relationship to salient environmental cues
  • Retrograde spatial amnesia : not able to navigate in environment that were familiar before injury
  • Anterograde spatial amnesia : able to navigate in familiar but not in novel environments
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What are the different types of topographical disorientation ?

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  • Egocentric disorientation
  • Heading disorientation
  • Landmark agnosia
  • Anterograde disorientation
  • Spatial disorientation
  • Balint Syndrome
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What are the symptoms of egocentric disorientation ?

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  • Difficulty perceiving relative location of objects with respect to oneself
  • Inability to reach for identified objects
  • Inability to describe routes (despite intact general memory)
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Where are located lesions that can lead to egocentric disorientation ?

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Posterior parietal cortex (uni or bilateral)

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What are the symptoms of heading disorientation ?

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  • No sense of direction
  • Able to recognize specific landmarks but unable to use them as navigation cues
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Where are located lesions that can lead to heading disorientation ?

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R posterior cingulate cortex

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Where are located lesions that can lead to landmark agnosia ?

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Lingual & fusiform gyri & parahippocampal gyrus (bilateral or medial R occipital lobe)

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Where are located lesions that can lead to anterograde disorientation ?

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Parahippocampal gyrus (R inferior ventral cortex)

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Where are located lesions that can lead to spatial-mapping or memory deficit ?

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Hippocampus

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What are the symptoms of landmark agnosia ?

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  • Inability to recognize specific landmarks but able to recognize object categories
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What are the symptoms of anterograde disorientation ?

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  • Inability to navigate in new environments
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What are the symptoms of spatial disorientation ?

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  • Problems in experiencing spatial proportions (“Alice in Wonderland” syndrome)
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What is developmental topographical disorientation ?

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Lifelong inability to navigate or orient oneself in the environment despite normal other cognitive functions

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What functions are guided by the dorsal stream?

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  • Action guidance : reaching, grasping, body & eye movement
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What pathways are associated with the dorsal stream ?

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  • Parieto-prefrontal pathway (FEF)
  • Pareto-premotor pathway (inputs from superior colliculus)
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What functions are associated with the ventral stream ?

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  • Perception functions : spatial navigation, landmark recognition, route knowledge
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What pathways are associated with the ventral stream ?

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  • Pareto-medial temporal pathway
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What is simult agnosia and what causes it ?

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  • Simult agnosia : inability to perceive more than one object at a time
  • Lesions : bilateral parietal lesions
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What is optic ataxia and what causes it ?

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  • Optic ataxia : difficulty in using visual information to guide hand movements
  • Lesions : parietal lobe damage
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What is Balint syndrome and what causes it ?

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  • Balint syndrome : inability to fixate eyes on specific stimuli, simult agnosia & optic ataxia (severe spatial orientation issues)
  • Lesions : bilateral dorsal parietal lesions
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What spatial deficits are associated with R parietal lesions ?

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Issues with visual location & depth perception

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What spatial function is associated with the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex ?

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Memory for locations

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What spatial function is associated with the premotor regions ?

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Reaching for objects

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What spatial function is associated with the ventromedial prefrontal cortex ?

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Location value

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How do the temporal lobes directly contribute to navigation?

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Dorsal input & ego-centric spatial guidance

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How do the temporal lobes are indirectly related to memory/recognition ?

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Visual input & allocentric spatial guidance

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What spatial navigation abilities are affected if damage to hippocampus & parahippocampal gyrus ?

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  • Ability to describe & navigate in familiar environment but unable in new environments
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What spatial navigation abilities are affected if damage to hippocampus & entorhinal cortex ?

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  • Able to produce a cognitive map, but unable to describe contextual details
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Lesions to which area lead to anterograde spatial amnesia ?

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Hippocampus

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Lesions to which area lead to retrograde spatial amnesia ?

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Entorhinal cortex

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What are the three main types of cells involved in spatial behavior and navigation ?

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  • Place cells
  • Head-direction cells
  • Grid cells
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Where are the 3 types of positioning system cells mainly found ?

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  • Parietal & rhinal cortices
  • Hippocampus
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What are the four elements of a coherent scene according to SCT ?

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  • Navigation
  • Episodic memory
  • Imagining
  • Future thinking
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