PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fusiform Gyrus, Fusiform Face Area, Phineas Gage
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Studies the structure and function of the brain, and how they relate to processes and behaviors. Studies people who have suffered brain injury or neurological illness. Not due to a de cit in vision, language, memory or low intellect. Cannot recognize visually presented information, because perceptual processing is affected. But individuals can use other senses to identify the object, such as touch. Patients often cannot trace/copy letters and shapes, because they cannot form a perceptual image of the object. Brain damage in left occipital lobe is often seen in apperceptive agnosics. Though patients do not all have brain damage in the same areas. E. g. j. b. suffered damage in the parietal-occipital areas of the left hemisphere. Can accurately distinguish the object (copy an image), but cannot identify its features or functions. But individuals may retain semantic knowledge of the object through touch or verbal description. Impairment limited to speci c stimuli (e. g. only living things)
