PSY280H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Parietal Lobe, Stimulus Modality
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Sensory processes require active exploration: use conscious and unconscious processes. Sensory inputs enter the conscious-thought-mind (black box: sensory inputs = tactile, auditory, visual, etc. With time, build sensory input and create memories which develops me . Mind is the center of consciousness that generates thoughts, feelings, ideas, and perceptions, and stores knowledge and memories. Inputs processes at different speeds even though seem simultaneous: brain processes audition faster than vision. If disconnect between sensory modalities, have doubling of consciousness. D j vu = one modality says happening now and another says happening in past, when it is actually happening for first time: strange feeling the present has occurred in the past . Jamais vu = feeling that happening for first time, even though already happened: strange feeling unfamiliar about a familiar situation , more rare. Both these phenomena can occur in normal by are commonly associated with temporal lobe epilepsy.
