Cognitive Psych 310 : Cognitive Psychology

Prosopagnosia, also called face blindness, is a neuropsychological condition that refers to impairment in the recognition of faces. Although prosopagnosic patients suffer from other types of recognition impairments (place recognition, car recognition, facial expression of emotion, est.), they experience face recognition problems above or over other types impairments. Prosopagnosia occurs without intellectual, sensory or cognitive impairments; in other words, people with prosopagnosia can still recognize people from non-facial cues. They cannot recognize familiar people by their faces alone, and often use alternative routes to alleviate the effects of this impairment. These routes include

Dr. P, a musician and teacher who had developed visual agnosia, had difficulty processing what he sees, especially faces, he could only identify them by features which he remembered. He only completed tasks if he was singing, if interrupted, he could no longer remember what he was doing nor complete it. Sacks diagnosed Dr. P with prosopagnosia, the inability to identify

Prosopagnosia is a condition where a person cannot recognise familiar faces, but only the features, not the whole face. The condition contradicts the model as it suggests that the process are most likely not separate. As most patients had severe problems with facial expression as well as facial identity, this suggests they are processed separately. The model can also be seen as reductionist, as it only gives a vague description of what the cognitive system does. However, there is research that does support the concept that there are two are separate paths for processing face recognition and facial expression. One being Humphreys, Avidan, and Behrmann (2007) who studied three participants with developmental prosopagnosia. All three had poor ability to recognise faces, but their ability to recognise facial expressions was similar to that of healthy

work. From my readings cognitive psychology specialized branch involves the study of mental process people use daily such as thinking, perceiving, remembering and learning.

For centuries, there were forms of facial recognition disorders reported. It wasn’t until 1844 that developmental prosopagnosia (DP) was first reported. Joachim Bodamer coined the term prosopagnosia in1947. Prosopagnosia is the inability to distinguish faces; it can also be referred to as facial blindness. People who have prosopagnosia can’t recognize faces, but they can tell that a face is a face. Not being able to recognize faces is just one of the impairments that can occur with prosopagnosia, you can also have deficits in recognition of objects, cars, judging age or gender. It has also reported that some cannot recognize their own face when looking at it. Researchers agree that prosopagnosia does not just happen one-way; people can

I found this week’s video to be particularly interesting. I have had the ability to learn about and see many diseases and illnesses first hand in the years that I have worked in the medical field. However, I had never heard of Prosopagnosia also known as facial blindness. Finding an illness that I have not heard of ignites a fire in me to find out more, so I chose to research prosopagnosia. According to Pinel (2013), prosopagnosia is essentially the inability to recognize faces. Prosopagnosia is one type of visual agnosia (the lack of ability to identify), however there are a few types of visual agnosia (Pinel, 2013). Those that suffer from Prosopagnosia understand that a face is a face, however, they cannot place that face to a person, even if it is someone close to them. The main symptom of Prosopagnosia is the incapacity to identify a person by their facial features.

Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, is a neurological disorder that prohibits an individual’s ability to recognize faces. It can occur in several different manners, each with different levels of severity. Some who have it are simply unable to recognize faces of familiar individuals, while those with more severe forms cannot distinguish between objects and faces, or even their own reflection. In some of these cases, it can be accompanied by issues with recognizing other objects such as cars or places.

Agnosia is defined as the inability to recognize objects through the processing of sensory information, which means there is no deficit in semantic memory or problems with naming objects. An individual suffering from agnosia still possesses all the relevant semantic information tied to a precept, but they cannot recognize the precept when it is presented to them and therefore trigger the recall of said information. There are many types of agnosia, but this essay will focus on visual object agnosia and prosopagnosia. The former is the inability to recognise objects: patients suffering from visual object agnosia do not have impaired vision, and in some cases can even copy the object they are seeing (patient H.J.A., Humphreys & Riddoch, 1987) or draw it from memory (patient D.F., Milner & Goodale, 1992), but are unable to recognize it when they see it. In the latter, prosopagnosia, patients cannot recognise faces of familiar individuals, and have to rely on other characteristics such as their voice or clothing to recognize them. Patients suffering from prosopagnosia can either acquire it through a lesion in relevant brain areas (acquired prosopagnosia) or for less understood reasons have it from birth, in which case it is termed developmental prosopagnosia. The study of patients with agnosia is integral to the field of visual recognition, as the specifics of their deficits can provide great insight into the ways our brain processes information; for example, the location of

Congenital Visual Agnosia in this particular child’s case, was not cause by anything affecting a visual perceptual system that was normal (Ariel, & Sadeh, 1996). Instead, in this particular case the child had visual system that was developed abnormally since birth (Ariel, & Sadeh, 1996). It is also mentioned in this case study that this particular case of congenital visual agnosia is important for research in understanding both agnosia in children but also how object recognition systems should develop normally (Ariel, & Sadeh, 1996). In this particular case study the child they are looking at was

determines how many animal die, and refinement determines if they are dying without pain, so refinement is more like a related effort and a fixation of existing problems: letting animals die in a different way after you sentence them to death does not change much. The reduction is more closely allied with refinement, assuming animals’ death. On the contrary, the replacement is the ultimate solution.

The author of this paper prefaces their findings with a lengthy list of similar arguments and studies related to the question they’re setting out to solve. Generally, these studies all provide evidence that face and object recognition are carried out by different processes in the brain in different specialized areas. The author of this paper wanted to dive into this question more specifically, aiming to find the precise area that this face recognition is processed in. Is there a specific area of the brain that is responsible for recognizing faces? More specifically, is the fusiform gyrus the area

Cognitive psychology began around 19th century. Different approaches have been used to trace the roots of psychology. It is also known that cognitive psychology was out numbered by behaviorism but later revived, bringing into being cognitive revolution. The paper discusses cognitive revolution in the history of cognitive psychology as the most influential part in the practice of modern psychology.

Faces are very crucial in terms of social interactions and are an important perceptual skill. They provide information about people’s identity, personality, and characteristics. Given its importance, facial processing has also become one of the most eminent areas of research in cognitive science, this has helped advancing an enormous number of neuropsychological, neuroimaging studies as well as behaviour to assist people’s understanding of the developmental, cognitive, and neural based of face perception. Loss of visual processes can lead to many deficits; one of the major disorders is prosopagnosia. Correlations between disorders of visual recognition of object and face recognition are currently being investigated with a variety of research method. Visual processing studies initially started during infancy experimenting on infants about their visual preference and have found infants spend longer time and attention at faces compared with other outstanding visual stimuli (Richler & Gauthier, 2014). This has set the ground for debate on face perception, such as is there an innate genetic predisposition responsible for face-like stimuli or by experience with faces? Whether faces processing differ with other objects processing, and if there is a difference between face and object process, are the processing mechanisms specific to faces, or they share certain properties? Therefore, the purpose of this article is to

The most important fundamentals acquired by social interaction include the face perception, extricating the data in the faces and the procedures included are enormous and can be exceedingly specific. The impression of faces is imperative to various aspects of life, setting up and understanding the feelings, correspondence, and the acknowledgement of objects that are included. The development of the patterns permits in

Question 1-Cognitive Science is defined as the scientific study of the mind. Cognitive Science uses the scientific method as it primary methodology. One of the main features of cognitive science is the multifaceted method, and it uses linguistics, robotics, neuroscience, cognitive, the evolutionary approach, psychology, the emotion approach, the social approach, philosophy, and artificial intelligence (Friedenberg and Silverman, 2012). Cognitive Science uses all these different methods mentioned above, and this is why cognitive science is different. It takes form linguistic, philosophy, and neuroscience, etc. As a result, the traditional cognitive psychological view does not utilize all these fields and areas of study, and this is why cognitive science applies to almost everything we breath, feel, and touch; therefore, cognitive science applies and intertwines all these different fields of study (Friedenberg and Silverman, 2012). Cognitive Science refers not so much to the sum of all disciplines but to their connection or diverging work on specific problems. Cognitive Science is a combined effort among researchers working in numerous fields (Friedenberg and Silverman, 2012). The cement that holds Cognitive Science together is the topic of the mind, and the use of scientific methods. The tri-level hypothesis, mental or artificial information processing events can be assessed on three different levels (Friedenberg and Silverman, 2012). The greatest or more