PS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Commissure, Motor Cortex, Capgras Delusion
Document Summary
Explains why people with capgras have delusions: amygdala supports familiarity, emotional processing and emotional decision making, emotion and factual info are processed separately, coordinated brain activity is required even simple functions like facial recognition, different brain regions work together to make facial recognition happen, when people have a stroke, it scars tissue of the brain, and effects the rest of the brain, can see how that part of brain was working with the rest of the brain. All sensory gets processed here and distributes to the right lobe (info to certain lobes: hypothalamus, eating, drinking, sleeping, sexual bahviour, hippocampus, important for both learning and memory. Temporal lobe: bottom of brain, main function processing auditory, include cortical (surface) and subcortical (buried) structures, midbrain, important structure in movement coordination, relays auditory information to the forebrain, regulates the experience of pain, very important structure, superior collicuous.
