01:830:305 Lecture 5: cognition lecture 5 notes
13 Feb 2017
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Different parts of brain do different things. Experimenting with patients most well done because one of the people who had this done to him wrote a book: 12-13 years old his mom died and father remarried. He didn"t get along with step mom, step mom brought him into psychiatrist office without knowing or boy consenting/ just had a minor adjustment problems: this story is about what the frontal lobe does. Frontal lobe doesn"t just do one thing, very complex, why each patient had different outcomes. A left hemisphere sees the right visual hemifield and controls the right. A right hemisphere sees the left visual hemifield and controls the left. The two hemispheres when corpus callosum aren"t contact are basically two different brain (when higher though is involved. Like two people inside one head) have different information. They are called split-brain patient because their corpus callosum is cut into two hemispheres.
