PSYC 2650 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hindbrain, Midbrain, Hypothalamus

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Roderick Barron

Document Summary

One site of damage is in the temporal lobe, particularly the right side of the head: this damage disrupts circuits involving the amygdala, helping an organism to detect stimuli associated with threat or danger, amygdala is also important for detecting positive stimuli, with damaged amygdala, people with capgras wont experience the warm sense of feeling good when looking at a loved one"s familiar face. These findings join the neuroscience evidence and the overall package of evidence fits well with our hypothesis (damage to the amygdala is probably the reason capgras patients, when they experience this lack of familiarity, offer crazy hypotheses about their skewed perception: capgras syndrome suggests that the amygdala plays a crucial role in supporting the feelings of familiarity. Cerebellum: largest part, coordination of bodily movements and balance, damage can cause problems to spatial reasoning, discriminating sounds, and integrating the input received from various sensory systems.