PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Agnosia, Parietal Lobe, Facial Recognition System

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Naseem Al Aidroos

Document Summary

Processing information as it is coming in through the senses. This has no meaning but we process it as vertical and horizontal lines. Your brain applies what it knows and what it expects to perceive and fills in the blanks. But if you put an a to the left of it, and a c to the right of it, we process these lines as a b . Easy to find vertical line in a and green line in b, but hard to detect red, vertical line in c. It is harder for us to find something when it has a combination of features. Apperceptive agnosia: a disorder that involves an inability to assemble the various aspects of an input into an organized whole. Associative agnosia: a form of visual agnosia an impairment in recognition of previously known stimuli. Integrative agnosia: caused by damage to the parietal lobe. Impaired in naming objects, as well as seeing objects as wholes.