PSYCH 2E03 Lecture Notes - Déjà Vu, Phantom Limb, Jamais Vu
12 Jun 2013
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Sensory processing the brain processes audition faster than vision. Unified experience; however, de ja vu and jamais vu are not unified. As long as you have cortical map for your hand, your hand is still there if there"s no insight there is a possibility of phantom limb. No sensory inputs to the homunculus from the forearm and hand face and arm-areas of homunculus expand into the neighbouring. When the part of self" does not belong to me common lesion in hemineglect right parietal lobe lesion. Brain does not pay attention to anything coming in from the left side. : drawing a clock, eating only the right side of the plate. Unilateral neglect (or hemineglect) sensations are not effected, however paying attention is. Accompanying damage to right parietal lobe left half of the body does not belong to me left side of space does not exist. How does this differ from hemianesthesia: no sensory loss.
