PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Temporoparietal Junction, Auditory Cortex, Occipital Lobe
27 Mar 2013
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It"s a waste of time to find any. Check out some ted talks (a clip from today will be from ted talk) [ted talk] julia, the neuroscientist, had a stroke. The two hemisphere are completely separate from one another , but communicate through corpus collosum. Reticular activating system (ras) -- associated with production of neurotransmitter and arousal. Superior colliculus -- plays a major role in programming of saccades (maps of current location & destination) Pulvinar (region of thamalus) -- filtering other stimuli so you can focus on attended stimulus, esp. spatial attention. Frontal cortex -- controls other types of processing, esp. orienting network. What have we learned from studying the monkey brain. Lots of research based on studies on [macaque] monkey. Direct cuing works on monkeys (stimulus-driven), but even faster than human (shows same pattern though) Looking at the effects of different neurotransmitters on attention processing.
