Psychology / Unit 2 Psych 0227 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Case: The Patient Who Cannot Name Faces
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The idea
A patient who sees a face clearly and cannot identify whose it is has damage to the temporal lobe.
In practice
The patient describes the eyes, nose, and hair accurately and cannot say the face belongs to their spouse.
Where people slip
Vision is intact here, which is what rules out the occipital lobe.
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