Question 1

The dorsal visual pathway is associated with the parietal lobe.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 2

A major source of evidence against the idea that faces are processed in a special brain region in humans is that the candidate region

Accepted Answer

A)  is used to process a variety of perceptual stimuli in nonhuman primates.
B)  is also involved in processing highly familiar places.
C)  is recruited when people have to make discriminations among highly familiar stimuli.
D)  varies significantly in location from person to person. C

Question 3

Which of the following visual object properties best illustrates the concept of a visually invariant property?

Accepted Answer

A)  The context in which an object appears
B)  Shading on an object's surface
C)  The major and minor axes of an object
D)  The spatial orientation of an object C

Question 4

When her telephone rings,a patient who has been diagnosed with visual object agnosia immediately picks up the receiver and answers it correctly.Why doesn't this person show any signs of an object recognition deficit in this scenario?

Accepted Answer

A)  The patient can still recognize extremely familiar objects,such as her own belongings.
B)  The patient is impaired only in the recognition of faces,not other classes of objects.
C)  The patient can use the sound of the ringing telephone to cue its recognition.
D)  The patient can recognize objects as long as they remain stationary.

Question 5

To emphasize that the dorsal visual system provides a strong input to motor systems to compute the way in which a moment should be produced,some researchers have argued that a dichotomy should be drawn between

Accepted Answer

A)  "why" and "where."
B)  "where" and "what."
C)  "what" and "how."
D)  "how" and "why."

Question 6

The term associative agnosia is reserved for patients who

Accepted Answer

A)  have perceptual impairments due to problems with the ventral stream.
B)  cannot recognize objects despite having normal perceptual representations.
C)  have perceptual impairments due to problems with the dorsal stream.
D)  cannot recognize objects due to compromised perceptual representations.

Question 7

According to Warrington's model,patients with left posterior lesions should be particularly impaired in

Accepted Answer

A)  recognizing the visually invariant properties of objects.
B)  linking visual inputs to knowledge in long-term memory.
C)  matching different views of an object as representing the same item.
D)  segmenting a complex drawing into its component parts.

Question 8

All of the following are problems with the idea that single neurons encode the mental representations for all possible complex visual stimuli EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  loss of any single visual recognition neuron would have too great an impact on perception.
B)  these single neurons would have to adapt as the objects they respond to change over time.
C)  there is no neurophysiological evidence that visual cells respond to specific types of stimuli.
D)  this approach cannot explain how we recognize novel objects.

Question 9

A major distinction in the study of visual agnosia is that between apperceptive agnosia and associative agnosia.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

After suffering from a focal brain injury,a patient has difficulty in recognizing visually presented objects,despite normal acuity and color perception.Notably,she has severe difficulty in judging whether two pictures,each showing a different view,represent the same object.What is the most probable diagnosis?

Accepted Answer

A)  Apperceptive agnosia
B)  Associative agnosia
C)  Synesthesia
D)  Prosopagnosia

Question 11

Patients with ________ have a deficit in recognizing visually presented objects due to problems in the ventral stream.

Accepted Answer

A)  prosopagnosia
B)  acquired alexia
C)  associative agnosia
D)  apperceptive agnosia

Question 12

The fusiform face area is part of the dorsal stream.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

A PET study conducted by Kohler and colleagues (1995)showed that performing an object recognition task produced activation in the ________ lobes,whereas a spatial position task produced activation in the ________ lobes.

Accepted Answer

A)  superior temporal / occipitotemporal
B)  occipitotemporal / parietal
C)  parietal / inferior frontal
D)  inferior frontal / superior temporal

Question 14

Synesthesia is a deficit in the ability to recognize faces that cannot be directly attributed to deterioration in intellectual function.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

According to ________ theories of object recognition,when one sees an object such as a bicycle,recognition depends on the ability to detect properties that do not depend on specific viewing conditions.

Accepted Answer

A)  view-invariant
B)  viewer-centered
C)  feature analysis
D)  perceptual categorization

Question 16

A patient like G.S.who had visual object agnosia would have difficulty in identifying an object unless

Accepted Answer

A)  the object had been familiar to him prior to his brain injury.
B)  he was asked to describe the object's use rather than its specific name.
C)  he was permitted to touch the object before making a response.
D)  the object was presented in the contralesional side of the visual field.

Question 17

A person with apperceptive visual agnosia has difficulty in recognizing drawings of familiar objects,such as an apple.If she were asked to imagine an apple rather than to inspect a picture of an apple,you would expect to find that

Accepted Answer

A)  she can generate visual images normally because agnosia does not affect internally generated information.
B)  she has great difficulty in generating visual images as well as visual perception because the two skills share common brain regions.
C)  she can generate visual images correctly and easily,but she cannot recognize them because of a memory deficit.
D)  she has great difficulty with generating images of faces but not other kinds of objects.

Question 18

One limitation of view-dependent theories of object recognition is that

Accepted Answer

A)  such an approach is based on the perception of geons in visual objects.
B)  separate templates must be generated and stored for each different view of a given object.
C)  this approach argues that recognition depends on decomposing a scene or object into its constituent parts.
D)  this approach is based on the idea that object recognition depends on the detection of invariant stimulus properties,such as symmetry.

Question 19

Optic ataxia is an inability to

Accepted Answer

A)  name familiar objects.
B)  read,acquired as an adult.
C)  recognize familiar visual objects.
D)  use visual information to guide movements.

Question 20

Generally,in anatomical studies of object recognition deficits,________ posterior lesions are associated with ________ agnosia.

Accepted Answer

A)  left hemisphere / apperceptive
B)  left hemisphere / associative
C)  right hemisphere / apperceptive
D)  right hemisphere / associative

Exam 6: Object Recognition

The dorsal visual pathway is associated with the parietal lobe.

A major source of evidence against the idea that faces are processed in a special brain region in humans is that the candidate region

Which of the following visual object properties best illustrates the concept of a visually invariant property?

When her telephone rings,a patient who has been diagnosed with visual object agnosia immediately picks up the receiver and answers it correctly.Why doesn't this person show any signs of an object recognition deficit in this scenario?

To emphasize that the dorsal visual system provides a strong input to motor systems to compute the way in which a moment should be produced,some researchers have argued that a dichotomy should be drawn between

The term associative agnosia is reserved for patients who

According to Warrington's model,patients with left posterior lesions should be particularly impaired in

All of the following are problems with the idea that single neurons encode the mental representations for all possible complex visual stimuli EXCEPT

A major distinction in the study of visual agnosia is that between apperceptive agnosia and associative agnosia.

Patients with ________ have a deficit in recognizing visually presented objects due to problems in the ventral stream.

The fusiform face area is part of the dorsal stream.

A PET study conducted by Kohler and colleagues (1995) showed that performing an object recognition task produced activation in the lobes,whereas a spatial position task produced activation in the lobes.

Synesthesia is a deficit in the ability to recognize faces that cannot be directly attributed to deterioration in intellectual function.

According to ________ theories of object recognition,when one sees an object such as a bicycle,recognition depends on the ability to detect properties that do not depend on specific viewing conditions.

A patient like G.S.who had visual object agnosia would have difficulty in identifying an object unless

A person with apperceptive visual agnosia has difficulty in recognizing drawings of familiar objects,such as an apple.If she were asked to imagine an apple rather than to inspect a picture of an apple,you would expect to find that

One limitation of view-dependent theories of object recognition is that

Optic ataxia is an inability to

Generally,in anatomical studies of object recognition deficits, posterior lesions are associated with agnosia.

Exam 6: Object Recognition

The dorsal visual pathway is associated with the parietal lobe.

A major source of evidence against the idea that faces are processed in a special brain region in humans is that the candidate region

Which of the following visual object properties best illustrates the concept of a visually invariant property?

When her telephone rings,a patient who has been diagnosed with visual object agnosia immediately picks up the receiver and answers it correctly.Why doesn't this person show any signs of an object recognition deficit in this scenario?

To emphasize that the dorsal visual system provides a strong input to motor systems to compute the way in which a moment should be produced,some researchers have argued that a dichotomy should be drawn between

The term associative agnosia is reserved for patients who

According to Warrington's model,patients with left posterior lesions should be particularly impaired in

All of the following are problems with the idea that single neurons encode the mental representations for all possible complex visual stimuli EXCEPT

A major distinction in the study of visual agnosia is that between apperceptive agnosia and associative agnosia.

Patients with ________ have a deficit in recognizing visually presented objects due to problems in the ventral stream.

The fusiform face area is part of the dorsal stream.

A PET study conducted by Kohler and colleagues (1995) showed that performing an object recognition task produced activation in the ________ lobes,whereas a spatial position task produced activation in the ________ lobes.

Synesthesia is a deficit in the ability to recognize faces that cannot be directly attributed to deterioration in intellectual function.

According to ________ theories of object recognition,when one sees an object such as a bicycle,recognition depends on the ability to detect properties that do not depend on specific viewing conditions.

A patient like G.S.who had visual object agnosia would have difficulty in identifying an object unless

A person with apperceptive visual agnosia has difficulty in recognizing drawings of familiar objects,such as an apple.If she were asked to imagine an apple rather than to inspect a picture of an apple,you would expect to find that

One limitation of view-dependent theories of object recognition is that

Optic ataxia is an inability to

Generally,in anatomical studies of object recognition deficits,________ posterior lesions are associated with ________ agnosia.

A PET study conducted by Kohler and colleagues (1995) showed that performing an object recognition task produced activation in the lobes,whereas a spatial position task produced activation in the lobes.

Generally,in anatomical studies of object recognition deficits, posterior lesions are associated with agnosia.