Fusiform gyrus

The article that was chosen for this assignment to be updated by a more recent article was the research study conducted on how colour based synesthesia affects memory performance on a given task (Smilek, Dixon, Cudahy, & Merikle, 2002). A 21 year old female, C, was the synesthete in this study who claimed to remember all of the digits in four lists that were presented to a university class, as a memory span exercise, with perfect accuracy while the other students could only remember six of the…

Cotard, in 1882 after describing it for the first time due to a case report of a 43-year-old woman. However, it has been discovered that there have been cases that were reported in the 1700s. Cotard’s syndrome is affected by the temporal lobe and fusiform gyrus region of the brain. It indicates a disconnection between two areas of the brain; the area that recognizes faces and the area that is able to associate emotions with facial recognition. The result of this is a absenteeism of feeling when…

Information Overload The internet has become a global resource for all things. It is now commonplace as we use it everyday. We are wholly reliant on it for social networking, communication, directions, news source, marketing, entertainment and the list continues. The internet holds the answers to everything that we want to know. But what cost is this having on the way that we think and recall information on our own? Is the internet actually making us mindless? Even though the internet may…

Agnosia describes a wide variety of phenomena associated with an inability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells when presented with that stimulus. That failure also occurs in the presence of a usually fully-functional sensory system and without any significant memory loss that could explain the recognition deficiency. Often, the disorder is caused by injury to the brain or some sort of neurological illness that damages certain pathways of the brain. This damage can be induced…

Discuss the use of brain imaging technology in investigating the relationship between biology and behaviour The function of this paper is to review, in an unbiased way of brain imaging technologies in investigating the relationship between biology and behaviour. Brain imaging technologies, with their advantages and disadvantages: PET scan/Positron Emission Tomography scan What it is: A PET scan, or Positron Emission Tomography scan is a scan that detects positrons that are emitted from…

The purpose of this study was to support the dominant view that the visual system is functionally and anatomically dichotomized according to dissociations between the ventral- and dorsal-streams. To illustrate this hypothesis, James, Culham, Humphrey, Milner, & Goodale (2003) examined the case study of patient D.F., who “suffered severe bilateral damage to her occipitotemporal visual system […], while retaining the use of her occipitoparietal visual system” (James, Culham, Humphrey, Milner, &…

Inside your skull is about one and a halfkilos of meat that somehow manages to keep you breathing, help you remember where your wallet is and remind you which is the best hole to put your lunch in not that One. And you know what, maths tests aside, it normally does a pretty decent job of stuff. But when you are dealing with something so unbelievably complicated, among the billions of humans all over the planet, you’re occasionally going to have some pretty unusual brain anomalies. There’s the…

acuity in discerning the fine visual details that distinguish one face from another. In fact, this extraordinary face perception ability requires so much computational power that multiple regions of the brain, including the inferior occipital gyrus and fusiform gyrus, appear to be dedicated to face perception (Haxby, Hoffman, & Gobbini, 2001). This neural specialization speaks to the importance of face perception in humans’ longevity as a social species. Just by looking upon people’s faces, one…

When this area is damaged there is an inability to recognize objects, also known as visual agnosia. Someone with visual agnosia may be able to describe and object and even point it out, but would not be able to tell you what that object is. The fusiform gyrus in the inferior temporal cortex along with the occipital cortex, anterior temporal cortex and the prefrontal cortex are all areas that to do with face recognition. Therefore, when one of these areas is damaged a patient may have trouble…

Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness affects 2% of the world’s population, which means 150 million people suffer with this on a daily basis. This disorder inhibits people from recognizing the faces of those around them including family members. Prosopagnosia wasn’t really discovered or heavily studied until 1947, by Joachim Bodamer. There are two main types of prosopagnosia, acquired and developmental. Though often not heard of prosopagnosia has been the struggle of protagonists in…