PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Parietal Lobe, Left Brain Interpreter, Ideomotor Phenomenon
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Tachistoscopic presentation: flash information so quickly on one side of the screen that only one hemisphere will recognize it. Able to draw something but does not know what they are drawing. Right hemisphere must guess what the left hemisphere is drawing. Left brain interpreter: allow for the left hemisphere to make sense of what one is doing. Ability to recognize faces is exclusively in the right hemisphere. Anitomically it is impossible for the left hemisphere to know what the right hemisphere knows when the hemispheres are disconnected. Can use the environment to relate, link the knowledge of the two sides. Left hand performs better at spatial performance than the right hand. Left parietal lobe injury may result in an inability to imitate hand genstures on pantomime tool use with either hand. Front part of the corpus collosum most commonly cut for patients with epilepsy. Alien hand syndrome: left hand is doing something the rest of the brain is unaware of.
