PSYCH261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Visual Cortex, Monism, Verbal Behavior
29 Apr 2019
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The human nervous system makes possible all that we can do, know, and experience. Refers to a variety of concepts, including simple wakefulness, or the fact that we are aware of our thoughts, perceptions, memories, and feelings. Can be altered by changes to the structure or chemistry of the brain: hypothesis that consciousness is a physiological function. Indicates that the belief that perceptions must enter consciousness to affect behaviour is incorrect. When mammalian system is damaged, people are still able to use primitive system to guide hand movements even if that person is not sure what they"re reaching for. Visual information can control behaviour without producing conscious sensation: suggests that consciousness is not a general property of all parts of the brain. Corpus callosum: the largest commisure of the brain, interconnecting the areas of neocortex on each side of the brain large bundle of nerve fibres that connect corresponding parts of one side of the brain with the other.
