Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Phineas Gage, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Oliver Sacks

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Campbell

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Psychology 1000 lecture 6: introduction to psychology (cont. ) Synesthesia: a possible explanation for synesthesia is cross connections of the senses at the neural level, another is that we are all born with it, but as our brain develops as we age it fades and changes. The man who mistook his wife for a hat. It"s a book by oliver sacks: case study of a patient with the codename of "dr. p, dr. p started losing the ability to differentiate common shapes, the symptoms began as prosopagnosia. Face recognition: some believe face recognition is based on dedicated brain mechanisms, face-inversion effect. Inversion harms the ability to recognize faces much more than it does for other objects. Prosopagnosia: face blindness, loss of the ability to recognize faces, tells us that there is a specialized area of the brain that handles these types of processes. If stimuli is threatening, people will quickly focus their attention on that stimulus: hansen & hansen (1988)