PSYCH 2H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Capgras Delusion, Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe
27 Feb 2020
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Able to recognize people (ex: husband) but not convinced that these people are who they appear to be. Believes the real" person has been kidnapped and replaced with a fraud. Mri studies suggest a link between capgras syndrome and multiple brain areas. Suggests that the amygdala plays a crucial role in supporting the feeling of familiarity, helps people remember emotional events of their lives and plays a role in decision making. Emotional evaluation of facial recognition works in a separate fashion from the evaluation of facial information. Many brain areas work together even for simple tasks. Brain weighs roughly 3lbs: males weigh 10% more than females, size of small melon, contains 86 billion nerve cells, each connected to 10000 others, 860 trillion connections. Phineas gage: construction accident caused him to suffer in front part of his brain, suffered both intellectual and emotional impairments, metal rod went through his brain, he lived.
