PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Optic Disc, Optic Chiasm, Photoreceptor Cell
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Clinical focus 9-1: migraines and a case of blindsight. Migraines=recurring headaches on one side of the head that usually occur w/ vomiting and nausea and is the most common of all neurological dos; affects 5-20% of the pop at some pt in their lifetime. When you look at an img, you think that the image is transferred whole to the brain = incorrect. The ns has to make the image from bits of information (has to put puzzle pieces together) like shape and colour what we then perceive is a full image. Not passive; brain is using memory constantly to interpret every moment of sensory info + to predict it in the immediate future. D. b. "s case shows that we"re only aware consciously of one part of the visual info the brain processes selective awareness: lose conscious visual perception while retaining unconscious vision. All our senses convert e into neural activity that has meaning to us.
