PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6,7,12: Sleep Deprivation, Diazepam, Brainstem
Document Summary
When we are awake: conscious awareness: what is consciousness. Everything you are thinking about right now. Your awareness of your surroundings and yourself. Not easily aware of but can be brought to your awareness: consciousness involves. Conscious awareness and the brain: in attentional blindness. Failure to notice things around us to which we are not paying attention: blind sight. Being unaware of what has reached our attention. Damage to occipital lobe, blind but are able to avoid objects. There are other pathways, that it is going to other brain areas and you may not be able to consciously see but you still have some vision. Conscious awareness and the thalamus: different areas of the brain are responsible for attention and for one"s awareness of that attention, intraluminal nuclei and midline nuclei of the thalamus. Damage unilaterally (one side) loss of awareness of one half of the body: hemispherical neglect, the brain hemispheres don"t communicate well.
