Psychology 2220A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mind Institute, Two-Streams Hypothesis, Agnosia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2220A/B
• Professor: Jody Culham

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Technique: neuropsychology: the study of patients with brain damage to understand cognitive functions and their localization in the brain. If a patient has damage to area x and cannot perform function y, x likely plays a role in y like damaging part of a car to understand what that part does: example: broca"s aphasia in patient tan. Object discrimination task: for example, raisin is under the striped triangle, monkey with temporal lesion cannot do the task, monkey with parietal lesion can do the task. **know what we mean when we say a double association and how to rule out other possible problems like one task is more difficult than another. Two visual processing streams for different visual percepts. What (ventral) object recognition: telling the difference between a face and a chair for example, damage to temporal lobe impairs what system.