Object discrimination task/Landmark discrimination task
- Bilateral lesion to the temporal lobe lead to a deficit in object discrimination.
- Bilateral lesion to parietal lobe leads to deficit in location discrimination.
Double disassociation
- Damage to the ventral stream - no conscious perception, but can interact with objects (the woman that could grasp objects she did not consciously see).
- Damage to the dorsal stream - can consciously see objects but cannot interact with that - the case of AT, the woman who could not accurately grasp unfamiliar objects that she saw.
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