PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Behavioral Neuroscience, Cerebral Hemisphere, Corpus Callosum
13 Sep 2016
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Computers don"t have an awareness simply cause and effect. Awareness of our thoughts, perceptions, memories, and feelings. Involves human awareness of - and ability to tell others about - our thoughts, perceptions. Subjective experience is the most basic form of consciousness. The brain"s primary purpose is to move muscles, but it does more. Neuroscientists believe the mind is made up of physiological functions somewhere in the brain. Attention if attention is taken away, anything presented to you becomes invisible - you are not conscious of it. Working memory paying attention to something makes it available to memory systems so it can connect to other stimuli. Long-term memory when attended stimuli enter working memory, they call up previous encounters with related stimuli. Cerebral hemispheres: parts of the brain that receive sensory information from the opposite side of the body also control movements of opposite sides. Corpus callosum: bundle of nerves connecting both sides of the brain.
