• Copgras Delusion
o Occurs when the amygdala is disconnected from the visual cortex
o People have no emotional response to objects that they see
o Ex. Man who though his parents were imposters
• Does not occur over phone conversations
• Recognition
o Occurs at 114 msec or 10 times/second or 1/10 sec
o It is when a match between perceptual input and a pattern (mental representation) in memory exceeds some criterion and conscious awareness of the pattern occurs
o Rapid and unconscious
o Temporal lobe
• Lower portion of the temporal lobe which extends forward from the visual cortex is the declarative pathway of the visual system
 It compares visual representations with representations of familiar faces and words
• Middle portion of the temporal lobe which surrounds auditory area, organizes features matching auditory input into representations of phonemes
• Logogen Model
o A logogen is a criterion node that determines when the comparison between the input......

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