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Achromatopsia
Disorder where a person does not recognise colours
Agnosia
Disorders of vision that impairs object recognition
Alexia
Disorder of vision that impairs reading ability
Cortical blindness
First line of processing of visual input is disrupted and people experience this as blindness
Cortical visual systems hypothesis
Argues that there are two visual processing streams: one for locating objects and one for identifying
Dissociations
Different levels of performance between tasks
Dorsal streams
Pathway running from occipital to the parietal cortex and which is mainly concerned with perception of visual info
Double dissociation
Difference in performance between two tasks which is opposite
Graceful degradation
Functionality of a brain module is reduced in proportion to the extent of a brain lesion
Ideo-motor apraxia
Disorder of gestures
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