NEUR 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antonio Damasio, Dissociative Identity Disorder, John Searle

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR 3303
• Professor: Amedeo D' Angiulli

Document Summary

Boat and rower analogy; boat is body and rower is consciousness. Descartes (cid:862)i thi(cid:374)k therefore i a(cid:373)(cid:863) Descartes; separate mind and soul; pineal gland = consciousness (wrong) Taste; 4 types of taste receptors --> goes to brain. Neuro(cid:374)s do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)ork i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduall(cid:455); the(cid:455) are i(cid:374)ter(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)ted; patter(cid:374) of a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)it(cid:455); (cid:1005) shape = Every representation = own pattern of neurons. Different parts of brain specialized for different things; e. g. looking at the red balloon (cid:373)o(cid:448)e; o(cid:374)e part of the (cid:271)rai(cid:374) ide(cid:374)tifies it"s (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, the other part of the (cid:271)rai(cid:374) identifies colour. Map of body on brain; opposite (sensation in phantom limb example) Emotions prepare us to act in a way. Dissociation = split in consciousness multiple personality disorder is an extreme example of dissociation. The way you understand your own mind help understand others. Binding problem: must be able to bind multiple things at same time; colour, shape, size of flower all at once to identify it.