AUPSY 263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Occipital Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Visual Agnosia

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY 263
• Professor: Kathie Bailey

Document Summary

Records moment by moment changes to stimuli. Wants to fire more when light is presented to the centre of the eye and less when it is presented on the edge. It"s not something we"ve practiced on humans, only animals. Different neurons in area v1 are specialized resulting in parallel processing rather than serial processing. A number of steps occurring all at once; does not have to. Steps that are carried out one at a time (a goes to b goes to wait for other things to occur. P cells smaller receptive fields; continue to fire as long as the stimulus is present. M cells larger receptive fields, respond better to changes in stimulus. What pathway coming from occipital lobe to temporal lobe. Visual agnosia inability to recognize objects. Where pathway coming from occipital lobe to parietal lobe. Location of objects and guiding of our responses.