CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Neural Oscillation, Sleep Deprivation, Alpha Wave

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Robert Reinhart

Document Summary

Consciousness (1) subjective experience of the world, resulting from brain activity (2) quality/state of being aware of an external object/event. Awareness (1) state/ability to perceive, to feel, to be conscious of events. Persistent vegetative state: full coma for more than a month. Minimally conscious state: deliberate movement & communication possible. Jan grzebski: in minimally conscious state for 19 years before waking & reporting that he had. Are people suffering locked-in syndrome conscious? been aware. With corpus callosum removed, the 2 halves of the brain cannot communicated gives insight into relation between brain regions & conscious experience. Left hemisphere attempts to make sense of right hemisphere actions. Right hemisphere experiences the world & hemispheres work together to construct experience of world. Biological purposes of sleep: (1) restorative theory: sleep allows the body to rest & repair (a) evidence: Sleep increases after physical activity (i) (ii) growth hormones secreted in sleep (iii)