PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: James Vicary, Retina, Proprioception

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Signy Sheldon

Document Summary

Lecture 4 visual perception: physiology and awareness. Functional specialization: idea supporting the mind-brain connection, different areas of the brain support different functions, the idea of localization, modularity and phrenology. Opposition to functional specialization: franz and lashley, mental processes relate to activity of the brain as a whole, and not individual parts. Last class: the mind-brain link: the mind and the brain are separate entities that interact and influence each other. Epiphenomenalism: mental events are cause by physical events. Parallelism: the mind and the brain are two aspects of the same reality. Isomorphism: the correspondence between mind (consciousness) and the brain is structural. Neuropsychology cases: split brain patients mind brain connection by studying people with brain lesions, tells about the left and right hemispheres of the brain. Meg/eeg brain activity at the level of a millisecond. Pet/mri brain activity at the level of the millimeter. Physiology of visual perception : how information travels from the eyes to the brain.