PSYC 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Falsifiability, Heart Rate, Fusiform Gyrus
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mind state there is a brain state, but the converse is not necessarily true. Heart rate, forgetting something: mental illness and drug action, recognition of brain states representing mental states, stigma of mental illness can be reduced. Whole brain telling v1 that there is a square there or. V1 telling whole brain that there is a square there: no true central area of conscious awareness. Research suggest synchronization of multiple brain regions required for consciousness to arise: split-brain patients. Left visual area information sent to right back of brain, and shared to other side of brain through corpus callosum. Speech is only present in the left hemisphere.
