PSYC2241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prefrontal Cortex, Culture Brain, Surgency
24 Nov 2017
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Brain patterns when thinking about the self vs. other people. Medial prefrontal cortex is focus of study. Area that is important for thinking about the self. Does it look differently active when thinking about the self vs. people we know well. Looking at what is more active in one condition vs. another condition. Self - case vs. self - friend vs. friend - case. Compares thinking about yourself vs. upper/lower case // thinking about yourself vs. your friend // thinking about your friend vs. upper/lower case. Case is a control task to click whether words are upper or lower case. Determining which attributes apply to yourself vs. a friend. What"s different is not meaning of words, it is thinking about whether the words apply to you vs. a friend. When thinking about something other than yourself, the medial prefrontal cortex becomes less active showing you are not thinking about yourself, you are thinking about your friend.
