PSYC51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Unimodality, Mesosphere, Retinotopy
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Move your eyes to attend to something vs. not. Name two subcortical structures involved in the control of attention sc and pulvinar. Much of what we know about attention initially came from studies of individuals who had damage to the right posterior parietal lobe as a result of a stroke. Perceptual disorder subsequent to right parietal lesions first described by the english neurologist john hughlings jackson in 1874, but the effect of right parietal lesions was not clearly defined until the mid 20th century. The types of symptoms typically encountered is illustrated by the case of mr. p: mr. p. , a 67-year old man, had suffered a right parietal stroke. At the time of our first seeing him (24 hours after admission), he had no visual-field defect or paresis. He did, however, have a variety of other symptoms: mr. p. neglected the left side of his body and of the world.