PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Virtual Reality, Memory Consolidation, Delta Wave
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Cortex and consciousness: the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is activated during conscious control tasks. Subjects asked to name the ink color in the stroop task below have difficulty when the word name and color are different. This color-naming task was associated with activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Control of the content of consciousness: i will think about this issue but not that one . Subliminal perception: notion that brief exposure to sub-threshold stimuli can influence awareness, study: subjects are shown aggressive (a) or positive (b) stimuli. And then rate a neutral stimulus (c) Subjects shown panel a first subsequently rated the boy in panel c more negatively (figure adapted from eagle, 1959) Unconscious cognitive processes: information-processing view can be extended to analyses of unconscious processes, notion is that many brain mechanisms operate in parallel. Some of these mechanisms operate outside of the level of consciousness: functional significance of unconscious mechanisms: Neurology of consciousness: consciousness is distributed throughout the brain.
