JAPAN 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Occipital Lobe, Global Workspace Theory, Tachistoscope
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In split-brain patients sensory inputs and thoughts cannot be transmitted directly from one hemisphere to the other. If the picture was flashed in the rvf, subjects correctly named it. In the lvf they could not name it usually said that they saw. For example, in the chimeric face study, the patients perceived unified whole faces, not half faces or chimeric faces: this is not understood, but it seems. The right hemisphere usually controls responding when the task requires matching of objects according to their visual similarity. The evidence: this section discusse4s evidence for conscious thinking in the right hemisphere according to the criterion of intelligent behaviour. Self-recognition and social values both hemispheres of split-brain patients are capable of intelligent action, though they have different talents. Ledoux: in the absence of extensive linguistic representation, the cognitive capacities of the right hemisphere are more like those of a chimpanzee than like those of a fully developed hum an .
