PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Capgras Delusion, Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe
16 Nov 2017
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Brain functioning of the whole is dependent on many interconnected systems. Capgras syndrome: fully able to recognize people in their world but is convinced that these people are not who they appear to be, real person has been kidnapped or worse, stranger must be impersonating their loved one. In capgras syndrome, the emotional processing is disrupted, leading to intellectual identification without the familiarity response. Some evidence comes from the psychology lab and confirms the suggestions that recognition of all stimuli does involve two separate mechanisms: o(cid:374)e hi(cid:374)ges o(cid:374) fa(cid:272)tual k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge a(cid:374)d o(cid:374)e that"s (cid:373)ore e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al. We can use capgras syndrome to illuminate broader issues about the nature of the brain and of the mind. Human brain weighs between 3 and 4 pounds and is roughly the size of a small melon. Contains a trillion nerve cells (1012) each connected to 10,000 others for a total of roughly 10 million billion connections. Different parts of the brain perform different jobs.
