PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Corpus Callosotomy, Epilepsy, Cerebral Hemisphere
13 Sep 2016
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Behavioural neuroscience is the study of perceptual processes, control of movement, sleep and waking, reproductive behaviours, emotional behaviours, learning, language, and psychopathology. The techniques employed are a combination of the experimental methods from psychology and physiology. A computer, hooked up to a camera, can process information about light and determine that grass is green. We have an awareness of the information we process. Consciousness: awareness of our thoughts, perceptions, memories, and feelings. It is often said that subjective experience is the most basic form of consciousness. If a being is capable of having subjective experiences, then there is something that it is like to be that being. The brain is the organ that moves the muscles. Sensory organs and interneurons evolved to help with this task. Neuroscientists generally believe that the mind is a phenomenon produced by the working of the nervous system. The mind is a physical entity located in a collection of brain tissue.
