PSYC 4030 Study Guide - Thalamus, Hysterectomy, Temporal Lobe
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How do you treat pain in body part that"s missing: mirror box, put good hand in box and brain senses movement of that hand in phantom limb, too, cured james"s pain, blind sight, graham young in oxford, england. Older ones goes from eyes to brain stem and is relayed to higher areas of brain: reflex behavior to a stimulus, graham"s vision is similar to a reptile"s because they can reflexively recognize the movement and location of an object (stimulus) b/c older pathway is not damaged like the one that goes to the visual cortex, blind sight is experienced daily by ppl while they are driving b/c they are able to successfully navigate world without being swamped w/ visual info, visual neglect, fine eyesight, but half of visual world no longer seems to measure, peggy suffered stroke in parietal lobe in brain.
