PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Visual Cortex, Cerebral Cortex, Occipital Lobe

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Janel Fergusson

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Psyc 101 week 8 lecture 3: biological psychology. The forebrain the cortex and hemispheric specialization. Cerebral cortex: outer layer of the cerebrum, learning, remembering, thinking, consciousness, etc. Corpus aollsoum a series of pathways that connects the two hemispheres and allows them to communicate with each other: each hemisphere primarily connected to the opposite side of the body. Visual recognition: each hemisphere is primarily responsible for the opposite side of the body, split-brain studies sperry took split brain patients and put objects in left/right hand. Right hand projects to the left hemisphere and left hand projects to the right hemisphere. Occipital lobe primary visual cortex (at the back of the head: beginning of most visual processing, layers of the primary visual cortex. V1 receives input from the thalamus. V2 processes, projects to other regions of occipital lobe. When you look at something and reach for it. Object/base perception (identifying objects: damage to the occipital lobe.