PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Occipital Lobe, Two-Streams Hypothesis, Startle Response

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Geoff Hollis

Document Summary

The occipital lobe processes low level details, and has a particular organization that preserves the spatial layout of our visual field. In selective rearing, we tightly control the animals living environment and that determines the brain structure. The cells in here seem to be responding to one segment of the visual field. Experiment: young kittens, all they see is vertical lines or horizontal lines, and they are raised in dark for the most part but for a few hours, they"re put in the light. After a few months, you look at the occipital lobe and see what type of stimuli is the v1 in the occipital lobe responding too. So the function of the cells seems to be determine by what"s in the environment. The benefits for society and humanity and the consequences of the researches. As he is clicking, his occipital lobe is highly active. Rather than processing visual information, he is processing auditory information.