PSYC3338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Jill Bolte Taylor, Temporal Lobe, Gender Dysphoria
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The (cid:1445)g(cid:1446) spot the god spot. Spirituality is a thing nobody can really demonstrate why. You have to use your brain for that kind of content. Split brain example one side believed, the other didn"t. Wanted to speculate what region of the brain is associated with religiosity. Another example: someone had a seizure in the temporal lobe a lot of temporal lobe epileptics have this involves spirituality and sexuality. Abnormal activity in temporal lobe can conjure up religious delusions/thoughts. Emphasized the capacity to think collectively with the right hemisphere. Wants to share her experience to get others to look for those aspects in themselves: biological gender, gender identity, sexual orientation. We will talk about gender dysphoria feeling that you were born into the wrong body . Really focusing on this issue it is a gender issue feel that they are a gender different from that of their physical bodies.
