Week 3: Part 6

Question 1

what did the kitten experiment show?

Answer 1

If an animal is reared in a particular environment, neurons in the animal’s brain change so they become tuned to respond more strongly to specific aspects of that environment

Question 2

what did the greebles experiment show?

Answer 2

• “tuned” brain to operate best within a specific environment, recognized faces better

Question 3

who discovered the object discrimination problem and the landmark discrimination problem?

Answer 3

ungerleider and mishkin

Question 4

what is the object discrimination problem?

Answer 4

temporal lobe removed from monkey made it difficult to identify objects

Question 5

what is the landmark discrimination problem?

Answer 5

parietal lobe removed - makes it difficult to determine objects location

Question 6

what is the perception pathway?

Answer 6

pathway from visual cortex to the temporal lobe

Question 7

what is the action pathway?

Answer 7

pathway from visual cortex to the parietal lobe

Question 8

what is perception?

Answer 8

dynamic - involves processes such as inference & taking knowledge into account but also because how closely perception is linked to action