PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Subliminal Stimuli, Qualia, Calcarine Sulcus

• School: Emory University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Daniel Dilks

Document Summary

Core consciousness: what goes on when consciousness switch is on ; awareness; not concerned with past or future, just present. Extended consciousness: provides organism with elaborate sense of self; places self in individual historic time; thoughts of past and future; gradual buildup of autobiographical self from memories and expected future experiences. Brainstem modulate wakefulness: homeostatic regulation of body and brain -- medulla oblongata, pons, pons, reticular formation. From thalamus, ear, amyg, cingulate gyrus, insula, pfc. Intralaminar nuclei (iln) : one on either side: ** core consciousness, damage --| core consciousness, all sensory input about body and world pass through thalamus, arousal. Cerebral cortex: wakefulness ; attetnion, damage --> loss of specific ability, but not loss of consciousness itself. Dualism: (descartes) mind and brain are two distinct and separate phenomena; conscious experience is nonphysical and beyond the scope of physical sciences.