Object recognition

Question 1

Agnosia

Answer 1

Form agnosia; Can’t perceive shapes

Object agnosia : can see shapes but not objects

Prosopagnosia : Face blindness, can’t recognise faces

Question 2

Fusiform gyrus

Answer 2

Ventral sides of temporal lobes. Face area. Integration is distorted

Question 3

Feature detectors

Answer 3

Neurons in the visual cortex specialised on a certain orientation/movement. Activated when a stimulus is oriented a certain way

Question 4

Feature integration theory (two stages)

Answer 4

1: Detection of features (properties like orientation etc, automatic and parallel)

2: Integration of features into object (less automatic, serial)

Question 5

Gestalt

Answer 5

The whole is more than the sum of its parts