PS260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Visual Cortex, Headache, Qualia
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Mental activity that you"re not aware of but that makes possible your ordinary interactions with the world. We are aware of the product, not the process. In order to explain our own behaviour, we use after the fact reconstruction". Seem to have no conscious memory of events they"re witnessed or things they"ve done. A pattern resulting from brain damage, in which the person seems unable to see in part of his or her eld of vision, but can correctly respond to visual inputs given by the experimentor. May be because they"re are islands" of intact tissue thats been damaged. Can be complex and sophisticated, but it is strongly guided by the situation you"re in or by prior habit. Cases in which you so something different than what you intended. Mostly includes doing something normal in a situation rather than what you want to do not that occasion. Launching desired actions and overriding unwanted actions.
