PSYCH 3GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fusiform Face Area, Recovery From Blindness, Necker Cube
24 Apr 2017
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Experience-expectant learning - a learning mechanism that is designed to respond to species-typical environments input, usually during a critical period: the genome interacts with the species typical environment by design. What did we learn from hubel and weisel: nature vs. nurture is the wrong questions, critical periods - efficient, balance costs and benefits, after it is used, the expensive learning. Instead ask how the psychological mechanism was designed to develop mechanism is dismantled. Michael may: could see motion, could see colour, could identify some objects, these different processes develop at different critical periods - motion processing develops early. Lack of activation in the ffa - specialized for face perception in infancy, face processing develops much later in childhood: cases of restored vision highlight the importance of visual input during critical periods. Fusiform face area - activated when you look at faces, not any other objects. This u shapes curve may require two different psychological mechanisms to explain it.
