PSYCH261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hemispatial Neglect, Cerebral Hemisphere, Parietal Lobe
24 Sep 2018
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Animism: an approach used by our ancestors to explain how things happened. It stated that all moving objects animals, the wind and tides, the sun, moon, and stars have spirits that caused them to move. Monism: a belief that everything in the universe consists of matter and energy and that the mind is a phenomenon produced by the workings of the nervous system. Consciousness refer to the fact that we humans are aware of and can tell others about our thoughts, perceptions, memories, and feelings. Corpus callosum (core pus ka low sum: the largest commissure of the brain, interconnecting the areas of neocortex on each side of the brain. Split-brain operation: brain surgery that is occasionally performed to treat a form of epilepsy; the surgeon cuts the corpus callosum, which connects the two hemispheres of the brain. Cerebral hemispheres: the two symmetrical halves of the brain; constitute the major part of the brain.
