PSYC575 Week 1 Discussion - What does the Goodale and Humphrey

PSYC 575 DB

DB1 

You are required to provide a discussion thread in response to the provided prompt for your discussion. The thread must demonstrate course-related knowledge, and include at least 3 scholarly sources, not including the course text and/or Bible. In addition to the discussion thread, you are required to reply to 2 other classmates’ discussion threads.

After reading the articles, respond to the following prompts.

· What does the Goodale and Humphrey (1998) article mean by “the field’s preoccupation with vision as sight?"

· How did Goodale and Humphrey’s view of the ventral and dorsal visual stream differ from the earlier theory of Ungerleider and Mishkin (1982)?

· Discuss the evidence presented by Goodale and Humphrey to support their view. How has learning about the brain’s two separate visual systems changed the way you think about your own visual experience?

· Finally, Goodale and Humphrey (1998) refer to the two visual systems as having evolved. Compare and contrast the evolutionary approach to function of the brain with the Tripartite Man’s approach.