Review Questions

Review Questions are included for each chapter for study purposes, many of the answers are found in the textbook. If your professor has asked you to email your answers to them, you can use the submit button below.


1		What are the behavioral effects of visual agnosia as documented by Oliver Sacks?



2		What is the origin of the following terms: Seelenblindheit, agnosia, apperception, prosopagnosia, imperception?



3		What is meant by partial cortical blindness?



4		What are the major differences between the classical view terms, apperceptive and associative agnosia? What sort of tests could define the differences?



5		What are category specificity effects?



6		What are the arguments against the classical model of visual agnosia?



7		What do dorsal and ventral simultanagnosia refer to and how does Martha Farah propose they account for other visual agnosias?



8		What are the three theories of visual agnosia?



9		How does Samir Zeki account for visual agnosia neurobiologically?

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