PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Temporal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex, Neuroimaging
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Psyb57 chapter 2- the neural basis for cognition. Capgras syndrome: an initial example-the human brain is an extraordinary complex organ in which the functioning of the whole is dependent on many interconnected systems. Someone with capgras syndrome is fully able to recognize the people in her world her husband, her parents, her friends but she is convinced that these people are not who they seem. She thinks that the son or the real husband is kidnapped or worse. And the people who are on the scene are the most well- trained imposter. The person insists that there are slight differences between impostor and the person he has replaced subtle changes in personality or tiny changes in appearance. Since no one else detects these changes, these suspicions can lead the capgras suffer to desperate steps people sometimes have murdered the supposed imposter.
