Motion Perception & Action Flashcards

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What is motion perception?

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  1. Movement attracts attention.
  2. Movement provides information about shape, size and depth.
  3. Motion helps separate figure from ground.
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What is the only type of motion humans can produce and perceive?

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Biological motion

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What brain area contains mirror neurons?

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Central premotor area

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When do mirror neurons fire?

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  • When an action is performed.
  • When another organism is observed performing the same action.
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What are the functions of the mirror neuron system?

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  • Identifying the outcome of the observed action and the emotion the other person displays.
  • Contributing to representing the other person’s desires, beliefs and intentions.
  • Serves as a basic building block allowing for a shared communication system.
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What are voluntary movements?

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Movements that are under conscious control by the brain.

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What are involuntary movements?

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  • Reflexes.
  • Rhythmic movements.
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What is the planning system of the planning-control model of goal-directed actions (Glover, 2004)?

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Planning system
- Used mostly before the initiation of movement.
- Selects an appropriate target, decides how it should be grasped and works out the timing of the movement.
- Influenced by individual goals and the nature of the target object.
- Relatively slow.

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What is the control system of the planning-control model of goal-directed actions (Glover, 2004)?

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Control system
- Used during the carrying out of a movement.
- Ensures movements are accurate, making necessary adjustments based on visual feedback.
- Influenced by the target object’s spatial characteristics, but not by the surrounding context.
Fairly fast.

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What is personal space?

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Refers to spatial position on the body.

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What is peripersonal space?

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Refers to the spatial realm within arm’s reach, or near space.

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What is extrapersonal space?

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Refers to the area beyond arm’s reach (far space).

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What is defensive peripersonal space (PPS)?

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When the peripersonal space contains obstacles or dangers, its function becomes the body’s protection.

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How do we predict the moment of contact between us and some object?

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By relating the size of an object’s retinal image to its rate of expansion.
- The faster the rate of expansion, the less time there is to contact.

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What are affordances?

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Affordances refer to the perceived and actual properties of a thing.
- Primarily those fundamental properties that determine how the thing could be used.

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16
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What are the two types of grasp?

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  • Power - Picking up a larger object with all digits so it presses against palm.
  • Precision - Picking up tiny objects with thumb and forefinger.
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What is kinematic information?

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Position, velocity and acceleration of the hand.

18
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What is kinetic information?

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Forces generated or experienced by our body.

19
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What are the two stages of reaching movement?

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  • Transport - Bringing hand next to object (visually guided).
  • Grip - Positioning hand and fingers (governed by shape and size of object).
20
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What brain areas are consistently activated during observation of point-light displays?

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The posterior superior temporal gyrus and sulcus.

21
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What are examples of motion illusions?

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  • Motion aftereffect.
  • Stroboscoptic motion.
  • Wagon wheel effect.
22
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What us akinetopsia?

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A disorder in which a patient has difficulty specifically perceiving objects in motion (motion blindness).

23
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What are the two types of akinetopsia?

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  • Frozen frames - aka cinematographic vision.
  • Vanishing objects, as soon as they move.
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What is akinetopsia associated with?

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Damage to the V5 medial temporal portion of the brain, involving the temporo-parieto-occipital junction.

25
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What is the vision-for-perception system?

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(What system)
- Processes information about shape, size, objects, orientation and text.
- Object recognition.

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What is the vision-for-action system?

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(How system)
- Processes location, distance, position, and motion.
- Visually guided action.

27
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What is optic ataxia?

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A condition involving severe problems with the use of vision to guide movements.
- Patients are poor at making precise visually guided movements, but can recognise objects or line drawings.

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What is apraxia?

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The inability to perform skilled, sequential, purposeful movement that cannot be accounted for by disruptions in more basic motor processes.
- Commonly observed after stroke, traumatic brain injury, and in people with neurodegenerative disorders.
- Typically affects parietal or frontal areas.