PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sleep Deprivation, Jet Lag, Benjamin Libet
13 Aug 2020
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Brain death: the brain shows no activity and no response to any stimulus. Coma: caused by traumatic brain damage, the brain shows a steady but low level of activity and no response to any stimulus, including any painful stimuli. Within a few weeks, someone normally dies or begins to recover. Vegetative state: marked by limited responsiveness, such as increased heart rate in response to pain. Minimally conscious state: in moments when people have brief periods of purposeful actions and speech comprehension. Spatial neglect: a tendency to be unconscious on the left side of the body, the left side of the world or the left side of objects. Eats from right side of the plate, asks what"s straight ahead and points to the right. In binocular rivalry, 2 stimuli compete for conscious awareness and for dominance of brain activity. Binocular rivalry: alteration between seeing the pattern in the left retina and the pattern in the right retina.
