COGS 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Basal Ganglia, Herpes Labialis, Encephalitis
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Lecture 8: the brain habit: bridging the conscious and unconscious mind 10/23/18. Habits don"t have that dopamine effect that addiction has. Habits can develop into addiction if they have the same motor circulation. Basal ganglia is important b/c of unconscious behavior. Mind started wondering and thinking about other things. Once you have learned something so well, you stop paying attention to it and thinking about it. Procedural/implicit memory got you to drive home safely. In the part of the brain that is non-cortical (subcortical) Habit is the most effective teacher of all things. -pliny. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit. Patient ep: viral encephalitis (what causes cold sores) entered the brain and targeted the part of the brain that stored memory -> catastrophic damage to the brain. Damage to patient ep"s brain: bilateral medial temporal lobe. This virus chewed up this part of his brain.
