CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prosopagnosia, Temporal Lobe, Agnosia

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Tracy Dunne

Document Summary

Sensory information sent to this lobe by thalamus for processing. Cannot understand what people are saying to you if damaged. If damaged, one will answer with either gibberish or nonsensical answers. Transfers recognition to left side to describe with language. Prosopagnosia: lack of facial recognition, face blindness . Humans have an expertise in facial recognition to determine friend vs. foe. Simply breaks down and processes sight sensory input. Temporal lobe tells you what you"re looking at. Parietal tells you where the object is (visuospatial) The sensory input from the eyes is sent here and in the occipital lobe the actual image is generated. Strip of myelinated fibers that allows for crossover. If we lose one eye, we can still see both sides of space. Greater localization of brain function in one hemisphere. Example: when the corpus callosum is cut, if something is viewed with the left eye it does not cross over.