PSYC 410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Neurosurgery, Episodic Memory, Frontal Lobe
21 Jan 2016
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Sperry laboratory focused on experiments on split-brain . Divide optic chiasm so info from one eye only projects to train one side on sensory task while other side remains unaware about it (cid:1) (cid:1) Consciousness (cid:1) (cid:1) ipsilateral half brain split brain phenomenon occurs when corpus callosum and anterior commissure are cut too. Each brain can see the opposite visual field. However, only the left hemisphere (right visual field) can talk. Led to questions of two brains and consciousness. Emotional and attention processes added under the field of. What does it mean that one can split the mind? . Early fears that severing the corpus callosum would lead to split. Surprising that there was actually an absence of any splitness in. Unaware of any changes in mental processes, except seizures had. Consciousness may be housed in neural tissue that is lateralized (cid:1) (cid:1) personality (cid:1) consciousness or personality (cid:1) lessened/stopped (cid:1) to one hemisphere lateralized.
