PSY 654 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Outline Of Object Recognition

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 654
• Professor: Benjamin Dyson

Document Summary

Study behaviours before and after event lesion is done to a region of the brain: what ever the discrepancy there is in behaviour then it is due to the lesion in the area of the brain. Ex: participant a: before, after, damage. Ferrier (1876) railroad worker, hold down job. Happened in frontal lobe: removed part in temporal lobe in monkeys, saw that the monkey became blind, but this doesn"t mean this part is responsible for vision. Parts of lesion: doesn"t necessarily have to be damage to the information centers in the brain but the communication between these centers. Find a place in brain that"s damaged and infer its due to that. Maybe it"s a shared damage causing both problems. Perhaps these 2 functions are done in different parts of the brain. Double dissociation: participant a, participant b. Cant process non words: see where both are damaged and cross check to see if the damage and non damaged parts correlate.