PSYCH 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.3: Cortical Blindness, Mirror Neuron, Nucleus Accumbens
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Damage results in cortical blindness (have no visual imagery even in dreams) a. i. 1. Damage in auditory parts of temporal lobe results in impairment at recognizing sequences of sound b. ii. Important for feeling something with fingers and detecting rate of vibration b. iii. Left temporal lobe: language comprehension; damage in this area results in trouble understanding speech and remembering names of objects and, in their own speech, difficulty in producing understandable language b. iv. Fusigorm gyrus: responds mainly to the sight of faces; damage produces inability to recognize faces b. v. motion blindness: see size, shape, color of objects but cannot track speed or direction of movement b. v. 1. Saccades (voluntary eye movements) brain suppresses activity in part of the temporal cortex responsible for motion perception (temporary motion blindness) b. vi. Amygdala: responds strongly to emotional situations; damage results in slower processing of emotional information b. vi. 1. People with an easily aroused amygdala tend to be shy and fearful b. vi. 2.
