Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Frontal Lobe, Prosopagnosia, Temporal Lobe
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Our senses our inherently influential; that is, educated guesses by our brains. Sometimes our best guess is incorrect; our brain makes mistakes and can be wrong. Sometimes this is because our guesses are just wrong, and sometimes because our brains are damaged. The occipital lobe is where visual information goes, and therefore, give you your brain"s sense of reality. It travels along the optic nerve, to the thalamus, the visual information gets sent to the visual cortex. If you damage this lobe, you will have a disconnect in the brain. Damage to the v1 (primary visual cortex) will result in blindness. Higher order projections from occipital lobes to other areas (temporal, parietal, frontal lobes) create the percepts of the qualities of colour, motion, shape, spatial ovation, facial recognition.
