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How can we interact with space?
By using position (body centered) , cued (guided by particular cues) , and place (environment based) responses
What do species and individual differences indicate?
Plasticity in spatial abilities and the hippocampus
Eg. Taxi driver studies, food catching birds, hormone fluctuations in humans
What Brain regions are implicated in the place, cued, and positional responses?
Place: Hippocampus
Cued and positional: Parietal, caudate, and frontal regions
What is intraoersonal and extrapersonal space?
Intrapersonal: Body space and that within relatively near or reaching distance
Extrapersonal: Space beyond 5 meters
What disorders are related with intrapersonal and extrapersonal space?
I: Distortions of body size, autotopagnosia, anosognosia
E: Reduplicative paramnesia, topographical amnesia, and topographical agnosia
What are Distortions of body size thought to be associated with?
Temporal lobes
Macrosomatognosia: Perception of enlarged body parts
Microsomatognosia: Perception of smaller body size
What is autotopagnosia?
Impaired knowledge of body part locations (self and others)
But can name, recognize, and describe functions of body parts
What is gerstmann syndrome?
Tetrad of symptoms associated with l angular g. dysfunction
Finger agnosia, left right confusion of self and others
What is anosognosia?
Denial of unilateral neurological deficit
What is reduplicative amnesia?
Delusion of a replicated place
May thought to exist in parallel worlds, or that it has been moved to another location
Remains in the face of contrary evidence
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