QUESTION 1 Flashcards
What is functional specialisation?
Different areas of the brain specialised for different functions
Four cortices of the cortex
1) Parietal lobe
2) Temporal lobe
3) Occipital lobe
4) Frontal lobe
Parietal lobe
Touch
Frontal lobe
cognitive skills
Occipital lobe
vision
Temporal lobe
hearing
Monkey experiment details
Experimenters: Ungerleirder and Mishkin
Exploring object discrimination and landmark discrimination
Object discrimination task
Monkeys were conditioned to discriminate between a two-choice task
Landmark discrimination task
Monkeys were conditioned to pick the correct food well by using the cylinder as a cue, landmark discrimination
Lesions where impacted object discrimination
lesions in temporal lobe
Lesions where impacted landmark discrimination
lesions in parietal lobe