Chapter 21: Spatial Behavior

Question 1

cognitive map

Answer 1

• brain representation of environment

Question 2

ventral visual field

Answer 2

• monitors our grasping space

Question 3

dorsal visual field

Answer 3

• monitors our traveling space

Question 4

egocentric disorientation

Answer 4

• posterior parietal damage

Question 5

heading disorientation

Answer 5

• posterior cingulate damage

Question 6

landmark agnosia

Answer 6

• lingual gyrus damage

Question 7

anterograde disorientation

Answer 7

• parahippocampal gyrus

Question 8

spatial-mapping memory deficit

Answer 8

• hippocampus damge

Question 9

six visual disorders bilateral parietal lesion

Answer 9

• visual attention
• simultagnosia
• optic ataxia
• fixation problems
• gaze apraxia
• abnormal visual search

Question 10

cue learning

Answer 10

• response to a specific clue

Question 11

taxon navigation

Answer 11

• movement towards or away from a specific clue

Question 12

piloting

Answer 12

• making course to a place without a direct clue or route

Question 13

cells for spatial navigation

Answer 13

• place cells in hippocampus
• head-direction cells
• grid cells, represent surroundings, indicate size of space

Question 14

dual-contribution theory

Answer 14

• spatial and episodic memory are seperated

- both located in hippocampus

Question 15

scene construction theory

Answer 15

• hippocampus is neither distinctly spatial nor episodic

Question 16

developmental topographic disorientation

Answer 16

• no landmark segregation, no nonverbal navigation

- abnormal dorsal stream