PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Sleep Spindle, Fusiform Face Area, Theta Wave
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Consciousness: the subjective experience of the world and of mental activity. In 1920"s, philosophers created the term qualia to describe the properties of our subjective experiences, like our perceptions of things (e. g. does red look the same to everyone who has normal color vision?) Persistent vegetative state: person w/ sleep/wake cycles but does not respond to surroundings (lasts more than a month) Minimally conscious state: ppl make some deliberate movements (e. g. following object with eyes) and may try to communicate. Split brain: a condition in which the corpus callosum is surgically cut and the two hemispheres of the brain do not receive information directly from each other. Left hemisphere is dominant for language: if split-brain patient sees two pictures presented to the visual field"s left and right side, the patient will report seeing the picture on the right side. But patient can choose the correct object shown to the right hemisphere (although can"t verbalize what was seen)
