Exam 6: Object Recognition

________ is the ability to recognize an object under many different viewing conditions and in many different contexts.

Describe the visual system's dorsal and ventral pathways. In your answer, describe the kinds of information that are processed in each pathway and the lobes of the brain that are involved. Give an example of an experiment discussed in class or your text that supports this distinction in the visual system.

A researcher wishes to investigate the visual processing of bodies in the human brain using TMS. Where should he or she stimulate?

The fusiform face area is part of the dorsal stream.

Which of the following BEST describes why facial perception is unique compared to object or word recognition?

Using equipment such as EEG and fMRI, it is possible that in the future, __________ will assist the detection of psychopathy, lies, terrorism, and murder.

Patients with prosopagnosia typically have difficulty recognizing

Optic ataxia is an inability to

To create an effective encoding model of the brain's visual activity, what properties should be used to model V1 voxel activity?

An undercover agent notices a green car parked outside her apartment building when she leaves for work at 8:00 a.m. Later she notices the same car in a store parking lot and becomes suspicious that she is being followed. The agent's ability to recognize the car under these two different circumstances is an example of

It has been suggested that the fusiform gyrus is specialized for processing faces. What are the sources of evidence for and against this position?

In functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, when a stimulus is repeated, the BOLD response can be ________ for the second presentation compared to the first. This is known as the ________________.

An encoding model of brain activity predicts brain activity from a given stimulus.