PSYC51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Superior Temporal Sulcus, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Extrastriate Cortex
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Restropinal syndrome inability to translate between egocentric and allocentric representations: use ppa to choose map selected in hippocampus, orientation mechanisms in rsc might come into play once we know approximately where we are by enabling us to specify directions to navigational goals. Consciousness divided into 3 part: self knowledge : among a long list of people and objects that an intelligent being, access to information : access awareness is the ability to report on the content of mental experience without capacity on how the content was built up by the brain can have accurate information is the being itself, conscious processing accessed processing underlying verbal reports, rational thought, deliberate decisions, product of vision and short term memory, unconscious processing cannot be accessed. Autonomic responses, internal operations of vision,language,motor control and repressed desires/memories: sentience : subjective experience, phenomenal experience, what it is like to be or do something, a. k. a qualia , materialists have difficulty explaining this.
