The EBA is activated by _____.
A) pictures of houses and other manmade structures
B) pictures of bodies and parts of bodies
C) direct eye gaze from another individual
D) tasks that require spatial information
Activity in the PPA _____.
A) reveals a preference for indoor, but not outdoor, scenes
B) is higher for pictures of empty rooms than furnished rooms
C) reveals a preference for body parts over faces
D) is the same for pictures of furnished and empty rooms
Prosopagnosia is _____.
A) the difficulty in recognizing familiar faces
B) due to damage to the parietal lobe
C) due to damage to the MT cortex
D) the inability to detect movement
An area in the _____ called the _____ is specialized to recognize faces.
A) temporal lobe; FFA
B) occipital lobe; RBC
C) parietal lobe; FFA
D) parietal lobe; area 4H
Tsao et al. (2006 ) found that _____ of neurons in the monkey IT cortex were face selective.
A) 12
B) 97
C) 70
D) 43
An IT neuron in the monkey will fire briskly when presented a picture of a _____.
A) monkey's face
B) Tree
C) banana
D) human torso
The principle that specific functions are served by specific cortical areas is called _____.
A) Magnification
B) modularity
C) distribution
D) segmentation
A structure that is specialized to process information about a particular type of stimulus is called a _____.
A) lesion
B) module
C) Partition
D) Pathway
Ganel et al. (2008 ) designed a modified Ponzo (visual) illusion in which line 1 appears to be longer than line 2, when, in reality, line 2 is longer. Participants are asked to judge the line lengths and to reach and grab the ends of the lines. The results of this investigation reveal _____.
A) the interaction of the ventral and dorsal stream
B) that the visual illusion affects both the ventral and dorsal streams
C) the effects of damage to the ventral pathway
D) that the illusion only affects ventral stream processing
The results of the patient D.F., who had visual form agnosia, show that _____.
A) perception and action are independent of each other in the brain
B) the same brain areas are involved in visual orientation and oriented action
C) the inability to draw items is due to a lack of general knowledge
D) double dissociations do not occur in these patients
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