PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Introspection Illusion, Motor Imagery, Attention
9 Dec 2013
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Cognitive neuroscience fmri evidence for awareness in vegetative patients . Disorders of consciousness following brain damage: df & other blind sight (a person that has sight, despite their blindness) patients, df. Give her a card and put a slot in front of her, which can move around. She must move the card around, and put the card in the slot. She is very good at this test. Motor imagery imagine playing tennis when answer is yes asking a patient a question, and they must respond using their motor imagery. Divided attention multi-tasking consequence of selectively attending to one thing: blindness to other things. Miss something right in field of vision if you are not looking for it. Blind to changes that occur at scene cuts or during eye movements. Only happens when you introduce a new cut. Why blind to switch: the world is dependable .
