Exam 6: Object Recognition

During a single-cell recording study,you locate a neuron in one of the two main output pathways from the occipital cortex that has a large receptive field in the central part of the visual field.The cell probably lies inside the ________ pathway and is specialized for ________.

Optic ataxia is to associative visual agnosia as ________ lesions are to ________ lesions.

The face inversion effect suggests that

________ is characterized by difficulty in matching pictures of the same object taken from different vantage points.

Researchers such as Ungerleider and Mishkin (1982)have proposed that the ________ or ________ visual pathway is specialized for visual object recognition.