object recognition

Question 1

1. What is the term for the group of disorders that result from damage to the temporal lobe and in which people have difficulty recognizing, identifying and naming categories of objects?

Answer 1

b. Agnosia

Question 2

2. What is the key brain area that is involved in object recognition?

Answer 2

a. Temporal Association Cortex

Question 3

3. Wernicke’s Aphasia is the difficulty to…

Answer 3

a. decode the meaning of symbols such as spoken and written words

Question 4

4. Agnosia’s involves difficulties with all the following EXCEPT:

Answer 4

c. Seeing objects

Question 5

5. The disorder that is characterized by the inability to identify and recognize familiar faces is called?

Answer 5

b. Prosopagnosia

Question 6

6. Object recognition is not absolute, but is complex, variable, and depends because of processing mechanisms that are involved which can make us perceive things different from what they are.

Answer 6

a. True

Question 7

7. We said that the recognition of objects is challenging. Which is the best explanation for this? Actually, that makes object recognition also difficult for robots

Answer 7

b. Our three-dimensional complex world makes objects often look completely different depending on from which angle we look at them

Question 8

8. A person in front of you has what is called Agnosia. What do you expect

Answer 8

c. The person may not be able to recognize objects that you have shown them before

Question 9

9. You are recording from neurons somewhere within the temporal lobe and hippocampus of a person. What do you expect could happen?

Answer 9

a. A certain pool of neurons may respond when the person sees any sort of cars
b. A certain pool of neurons may respond only if the person sees an image of their own dog
c. Certain single neurons may respond specifically to images or the written name of the persons brother

Question 10

10. You are looking at an image of a landscape, but somehow you see a face in the landscape. What is the best explanation for what is going on?

Answer 10

c) The neuronal architecture of the temporal lobe is naturally tuned to preferentially recognize special features or pattern within a scene.

Question 11

11. You are meeting up with an old friend who recently has had a brain injury and because of that now suffers from prosopagnosia. What do you expect will happen?

Answer 11

a) Your friend will not recognize you from looking at your face
b) Your friend will recognize you when you provide cues