PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Visual Cortex, Parasomnia, Waking Hours
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Surgery is a procedure that severs a large band of axons that connect the two hemispheres, corpus callosum. Reduces frequency and severity of seizures associated with epilepsy. When done, the two hemispheres are unable to share information across the cortex. Left side of body acts on its own. Left hand might wave without knowledge or control of the individual. The image your right field sees never arrives to the language left side of the brain in split brain patients. The subjective experiences of your internal and external world. Attention is the process of selecting information from the internal and external environments to prioritize for processing. Passive attention is prioritized when bottom-up information from the external environment requires a response. Ex when you hear a loud noise in a quiet room, you will probably immediately stop what you are doing to find the noise source. Active attention is when attention is directed by goals and top down processing.
