PSY4111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Visual Cortex, Prosopagnosia, Benzene

• School: Monash University
• Department: Health Sciences - Psychology
• Course: PSY4111
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Experience of the environment is caused by all five senses. Ncc is any neural state that directly relates to a conscious experience. Phineas gage frontal lobe damage, but he was still conscious. He had a bar go through his head. If the primary visual cortex, the visual area 1, is damaged, we can still see. E(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:449)ithout the visual area 1, so(cid:373)e i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) (cid:272)a(cid:374) still get through a(cid:374)d (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) still (cid:862)see(cid:863), (cid:272)alled. There is strong evidence motion is processes in the. Prosopagnosia or face blindness when there is damage to this area people can no longer recognise faces. Consciousness creation areas in the brain are activated leading to consciousness in certain areas such as faces, motion, colour. There are billions of neurons which seem to relate to consciousness. In the brain, each single banner is binary but overall globally a complex image is formed == example from a soccer match with supporter colours.