PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Visual Cortex, Depth Perception, Frontal Lobe
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Electrodes used to measure firing rates of specific neurons. Eg/ line orientation: different neurons specialize (specific neural firing frequency patterns) in seeing certain line orientations; vertical, horizontal, diagonal. Where dorsal pathway superior ventral lobes, parietal lobes processes spatial location. * damaging different areas leads to different functional deficits: deciding and acting. Many other brain areas (involving memory, planning, motivation, self-control, etc. ) then decide what do, and tell our motor cortex to communicate the appropriate actions to muscles in the body Constructed perception goes to frontal cortex mediates processing and combines ideas of emotion with reasoning feeds back to motor cortex =physical actions. Before we construct perceptions, our brains must learn how to pre-existing knowledge guides perceptions. Kittens raised from birth with one eye patched. Pathways in the brain developed in such a way that allowed cats to function at a high level with only one eye. Measured firing of cells = found specialization.
