PSYO 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Synesthesia, Prosopagnosia, Food Coloring

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 111
• Professor: Dr Mark Holder

Document Summary

Most brain oddities are studied in terms of dysfunction. Sensory neglect: only sees one side. Prosopagnosia: when the brain doesn"t recognize faces, cant read emotions or recognize people by their face. Capgrass syndrome: no emotional connection (looks acts sounds like mom but its not, can"t recognize someone. Coltard"s delusion: see people who are important in your life but no emotional connection, brain makes sense of it by thinking you yourself is dead. Subject s: the man with perfect memory, human tape recorder knew word for word, when he heard a conversation, he saw it and smelled it process conversations visually and olfactory wise. You can hear" the colour red can see the b at as red. A brain phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory pathway. It smells the same pink as my angle food cake. Lemon is a pointed shape, pressed into my face and hands.