PSYCH 2E03 Lecture Notes - Parietal Lobe, Simultanagnosia, Saccade
12 Jun 2013
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Right side of the body gets attention from both right as well as left parietal lobes. Attention is a different process than sensation: sensation right to left and left to right. Normally we are right brain dominant for spatial attention (attend to left space) Pseudo-neglect for the right side: tend to ignore the right side compared to the left. Which of the bars seems darker and why. Most people will say that it is darker if the left side is darker. Pay more attention to the left side therefore darker band then the one on top. Perhaps an advantage to have the oncoming traffic on your left side. Attentional failure and simultanagnosia cannot grasp the whole scene. Either fixes to one component of the scene. Binding failure and simultanagnosia: unable to recognize when things are coming together cause of significant binding failure: bilateral, both to the left and right, lesion of parietal lobe (balint"s syndrome)
