w4 Flashcards
what is the what stream
temporal/ ventral
what is the where stream
parietal/ dorsal
lesions in the what stream lead to
specific impairments in object recognition
lesions in the where stream lead to
deficits in spatial attention
what is simultanagnosia
unable to focus attention on more than one object at a time
what is Balint’s syndrome
damage to parietal cortex leading to simultanagnosia and problems combining features of a stimulus
what has been found about the parietal cortex and feature binding
during conjunction search, posterior temporal cortex and parietal cortex show increased activation over baseline control conditions
what does TMS to parietal lobe disrupt
conjunction search, but not feature search
what is hemispatial neglect
lack of awareness of stimuli presented to the side of space on the opposite side to the brain damage
what is extinction
Patients detect a single stimulus presented to one visual field, but fail to detect the same stimulus when another stimulus is simultaneously presented to the other field
how much processing happens with objects in hemispatial neglect
a lot of basic perceptual processing happens to things in the neglected field
there is a priming effect with objects in the neglected field- what does this mean
An object presented to the neglected field can change the patient’s behaviour, so the object has been semantically processed
where would a lesion underly neglect
Right inferior parietal lobe
what are neglect and extinction deficits of
deficits of attention not
perception
what is neglect due to impairment of
the stimulus-driven system