PSYCH 169 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Phantom Pain, Detection Theory, Long-Term Memory
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Intermanual conflict: when one hand blocks the others movements (can happen to anyone with damage to the frontal lobe; dissociation of thought and action. Study of blocks: right brain will run circles around the left side. When left hand (rt brain) is behind the back, right hand has a hard time placing the blocks. Pain: cause and effect: does neural activity cause pain or does pain cause neural activity, pha(cid:374)to(cid:373) li(cid:373)(cid:271): (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:455)ou feel like (cid:455)ou still ha(cid:448)e a li(cid:373)(cid:271) that"s (cid:271)ee(cid:374) a(cid:373)putated. Damage to severed nerves pass signals to the brain with their interpretation that the limb is still there. Another phenomena-- they feel face sensations on their limb because the brain"s somatosensory area for the face is very close to the hand area. Self i(cid:374)fli(cid:272)ted pai(cid:374) does(cid:374)"t light up the acc: treatment for phantom pain: use a mirror.
