PSYCH 212 Chapter 14-15: Chapter 14 & 15 Notes
10 Mar 2017
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Consciousness consciousness - the state of awareness of one"s own existence, thoughts, emotions, and experiences default mode network - a circuit of brain regions that is active during quiet introspective thought. The frontal lobe governs our most complex behaviors. Chapter 15: brain asymmetry, spatial cognition, and language. Right hemisphere damage impairs spatial cognition astereognosis - the inability to recognize objects by touching and feeling them prosopagnosia (face blindness) - a conditioned characterized by the inability to recognize faces. May occur after localized brain damage aphasia - an impairment in language understanding and/or production that is caused by brain injury. Damage to a left anterior speech zone causes non uent (or broca"s) aphasia. Broca"s area - a region of the frontal lobe of the brain that is involved in the production of speech non uent aphasia (broca"s aphasia) - a language impairment characterized by dif culty with speech production but not with language comprehension.
