PSY 0816 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Fusiform Gyrus, Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe

• School: Temple University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 0816
• Professor: Todd Karpinski

Document Summary

Adrian owen used advanced scanning technology to map areas of the brain, including those involved in recognizing human faces. Kate bainbridge, 26 school teacher who had become comatose after a flulike illness, diagnosed as a vegetative state. A person in a vegetative state has periods of wakefulness but shoes no awareness of her environment and does not make purposeful movements. Used a pet scanner, flashed pics of her family and digitally distorted images in which faces were unrecognizable on the screen. When faces of her fam were shown an area in her brain called the fusiform gyrus that plays a central role in face recognition lit up on the scan. The fusiform gyrus activation in her brain was not simply similar to normal, it was exactly the same as normal volunteers. Began using a fmri scanner, faster than pet, capturing changes in blood flow in the brain almost as they occur.