Exam 4: Cortical Organization

 Gauthier et al.'s Greeble finding is consistent with the _____ hypothesis.

 Tsao et al. (2006) found that _____ of neurons in the monkey IT cortex were face selective.

 Dougherty et al. (2003) used brain imaging to investigate cortical magnification. Their primary finding was that _____.

 Zghsx#8j, a visitor from another planet, is curious about cars. She takes the battery out of the car, and finds out that the car won't start and the lights and stereo don't work. Her "research" is most closely related to the method called _____.

 An electrode is placed in an orientation column that responds best to orientations of 45 degrees. The adjacent column of cells will probably best respond to orientations of _____.

 Gelbard-Sagiv et al. (2008) monitored individual MTL neurons while displaying video clips of a variety of stimuli. They were able to identify neurons that respond preferentially to a visual stimulus. Later, they asked participants to _____ and found preferential activation of the same neuron to the video clip concept.

 Describe the methods, results, and conclusions of Gauthier et al.'s "Greeble" research.

 Identify the five areas of the brain associated with processing of faces, explaining what is processed in each area.

 Prosopagnosia is _____.

 A large object, such as a tree trunk, will cause _____.

 Activity in the PPA _____.

 An IT neuron in the monkey will fire briskly when presented a picture of a _____.

 The ventral pathway has also been labeled the "_____" pathway.

 An area in the _____ called the _____ is specialized to recognize faces.

 The results of the patient D.F., who had visual form agnosia, show that _____.

 _____ refers to the fact that the response properties of neurons can be shaped by what an animal or person perceives.

 A structure that is specialized to process information about a particular type of stimulus is called a _____.

 The _____ effect occurs because humans have more cortical neurons that respond to horizontal and vertical orientations than slanted orientations.

 The brain imaging technique that creates images of structures in the brain, but cannot indicate neural activity, is _____.

 Summarize the Ganel et al. (2008) research on length estimation and grasping tasks, and what the implication of this research is for different processing streams.