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1) A) The most common complaint for healthy and brain-damaged persons is that they can recognise the face but forget the name

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1) A) The most common complaint for healthy and brain-damaged persons is that they can recognise the face but forget the name. What are some possible reasons for this? B) While evolution is clearly important in modifying brain mechanism some functions are placed in brain areas that allow connections to other functionally similar or related areas. Discuss in relationship to recognition of expression, emotion and movement.

2) A) Persons with form agnosia find it easier to recognise a line drawing of an object than a silhouette, while this is not the case for the integrative agnosic. Give a possible explanation for the differences between these two perceptual disorders. B) The more information you know about a person, the more likely it is that you will remember their name. Explain why this might be the case in terms of Bruce and Young’s model. How would you change the model to make this prediction more likely?

3) A) If you were to design a robot with a vision system, what features would you include in order to compete with that of a human? B) Give examples of the occupations in which a complaint of either astereognosis or akinotopsia or astereognosis might be a disadvantage. C) Can these three disorders  be easily classified as sensory or perseptual disorders.

4) A) Describe the nature of the hierarchical perceptual system as it travels between V1 and the inferior temporal cortex. B) What are the differences between the types of information that are projected by the parvo cells compared to the magno cells. C) Describe the two pathways of the ‘what’ and the ‘where-action’ in terms of their area, e.g. V5, and their function.

5) A) Humans have many evolved brain changes that have favoured various functions when compared to other species. What are the functional evolutionary advantages that favour us most, and why? B) An adult and a newly born baby are put in stasis to be reawakened 200 years later. Which individual will be favoured in their eventual adaptation to the new world that awaits them, and why?