Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Midbrain, Neuroimaging, Thalamus

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Gives us first hand knowledge, demonstration that there is a specialized area of the brain that handles these types of processes: determine: human face and emotions. Studies have shown that in a crowd of mutual faces, an angry face will stick out more (poses more of a threat evolutionary factors: we need to quickly identify threats in our environment. Name the colour of the font of the word: difficult when colour doesn"t match the word, automatic processing reading of words can interfere with other processes (naming colours) Older you are, hair cells in the ear are damaged: can"t hear high frequencies (hertz) Stroke in parietal lobe eye sight is fine. Right brain damaged, cannot attend to left side (neglected: drew daisy out of memory and couldn"t draw left side of the daisy. Damage to primary visual part of the brain. Can"t see changes but reports movements as correct.