optic flow
the overall pattern of movement in the visual field
peristimulus time histogram
a graph that shows how a neuron responds to a stimulus
hemineglect
a condition where patients are unable to attend to the visual field contralateral from the lesion
iconic memories
sensory impressions that only last a few seconds
short term memories/working memory
memories that last throughout conscious rehearsal
prosopagnosia
‘face blindness’
cannot recognize individual faces
caused by damage to the right fusiform gyrus
persistent neural activity
neural firing that sustains itself in the absence of a stimulus and, thus, can store a memory of a stimulus that is no longer there