PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Corpus Callosotomy, Corpus Callosum, Basal Ganglia

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 211
• Professor: Gary Brouhard

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Psyc 211 neuro notes: behavioural neurosci 2 is more intense science, lots of labwork, rats, the first midterm is on chapters 1-6. Consciousness: created. bump into something, but they have no awareness. )t"s hard to create a robot it"s impossible to create one that is human. )t"s hard to do what the brain does. )t"s remarkable how we do the things we do: we have not yet solved consciousness. Houseplants and rumba don"t have consciousness: the brain evolved to move your muscles. )f something doesn"t come to your attention, it is not in your consciousness. We also need working memory (localized in the prefrontal cortex, goes to thalamus and pfc or basal ganglia and pfc): the brain is physical and biological. Technically disagrees with the first definition of consciousness. Left side of brain controls language, verbal couldn"t (cid:498)talk(cid:499), couldn"t communicate what it felt.