PSYC 4034 Chapter : Chapter 1
Document Summary
He believed we are physically based organisms like other things in nature but we are unique in that we have a spiritual soul that is separate from the physical forces (dualistic) The specificity is due to where the info goes in the brain or 2. Some things are more evident on one side than on the other: the book links the notion of conscious awareness to the control of language. There are many things that the brain is doing that is at the level below the cerebral cortex, things we are not completely aware of (blood pressure, body fluid movement) even though these things are highly regulated. This frees us the cortex activity and allows us to attend to other things. If done on the right, there are other impairments, such as lack of spatial ability, loss of cognitive map, etc.
