Exam 6: Object Recognition

Regarding facial recognition, the ventral pathway is to the superior temporal sulcus as __________ is to __________.

As a neurologist, you have a patient with prosopagnosia, and the patient has also lost the ability to read. Which of the following are you LEAST likely to report after examining this patient?

Neurons in the inferior temporal (IT) cortex rarely respond to __________. Rather, they respond to __________.

While conducting an fMRI study, you ask participants to view photographs of scenes and to make distinctions about those scenes. For example, you instruct participants to respond when trees are near a lake or when a house is near a garden. In which area of the brain do you most likely to see a pronounced BOLD signal?

The dorsal visual pathway is associated with the parietal lobe.

According to ensemble theories of object recognition, it is possible to confuse similar-looking objects because

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 ________.

Synesthesia is a deficit in the ability to recognize faces that cannot be directly attributed to deterioration in intellectual function.

Generally, brain lesions in individuals with associative agnosia are

After suffering from a focal brain injury, a patient has difficulty in recognizing visually presented objects, despite normal acuity and color perception. Notably, she has severe difficulty in judging whether two pictures, each showing a different view, represent the same object. What is the most probable diagnosis?

When a person who has learned to read proficiently subsequently develops reading problems as a result of brain injury, this deficit is called

Anatomical outputs from the occipital lobe follow two major axon bundles that terminate in the ________ and ________.

A stroke patient is having trouble recognizing objects. For example, sometimes he can't recognize his own cat depending on how the cat is positioned. Where in the brain does this patient most likely have damage?

According to Warrington's model, patients with left posterior lesions should be particularly impaired in

Humphreys and Riddoch (1994) described a patient with a syndrome they called integrative visual agnosia, which was characterized by difficulty in

Lomber and Malhorta (2008) conducted a study asking cats to identify the where and what of an auditory stimulus. Using thin tubes of cold liquid, the researchers induced transient lesions. Lesions to the anterior auditory region disrupted the __________ task but not the __________ task. When lesions were induced to the posterior auditory region, the cats showed the _______ pattern of performance.

Patients with associative visual agnosia can typically describe the functions of objects if they are given the names of the objects verbally.

Eliminating a gnostic unit would

Which characteristic of brain activity is promising for the potential to decode dreams in the future?

Why might the brain have dedicated regions devoted to recognizing faces or places, but not for making other types of distinctions such as object discrepancies?