PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Eyelid, Optic Nerve, Posterior Parietal Cortex
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Chapter 2 the neural basis for cognition. Capgras syndrome accompaniments to alzheimer"s syndrome, sometimes observed among the elderly, disorder can result from various injuries to the brain. Fully able to recognize the people in the world but is convinced that these people are not who they appear to be (i. e. husband has been kidnapped and is not the real person) Slight differences b/w the imposter and person he has replaced subtle changes in personality or tiny changes in appearance. Lies in the fact that facial recognition involves 2 separate systems in the brain, one cognitive appraisal and other more global, somewhat emotional appraisal. In capgras, the latter (emotional) processing is disrupted, leading to intellectual identification without the familiarity response. Neuroimaging techniques used to look on about this disorder scans suggest link b/w capgras syndrome and abnormalities in several brain areas, 1 site of damage is temporal lobe, particularly right side of head.
