PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Corpus Callosum, Occipital Lobe, Parietal Lobe
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Cortex vs. midbrain: the cerebral cortex is the place where high-level perception of the world occurs, and is the place where controlled motor activities originate. In this sense, it is the place where all our controlled interactions with the external world occur. This contrasts with a number of more basic brain regions, which are more devoted to monitoring and controlling internal behaviours and automatic responses to external stimuli. Corpus callosum connects the two hemisphere: the brain has wrinkles because we can get much more of the brain in a smaller area. Da(cid:373)age (cid:272)a(cid:374) lead to agnosia the inability to name common objects by vision. Author oli(cid:448)er a(cid:272)ks (cid:449)rote short stories a(cid:374)d (cid:862)the guy (cid:449)ho (cid:373)istook his (cid:449)ife for a hat(cid:863) has short stories of people who had different brain damage that caused interesting symptomology. Vision is perfectly fine but (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t identify the object.
