PSYC340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Capgras Delusion, Frontal Lobe, Parietal Lobe

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC340
• Professor: Intraub Helen

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What do we learn from capgras syndrome: recognition of stimuli involves 2 mechanisms, factual knowledge, emotional, capgras: damage to amygdala (inability of emotion) and damage to prefrontal cortex (crazy hypotheses) 2: also regulates the experience of pain, forebrain: largest region of the brain, cerebral cortex thin covering on the outer surface of the forebrain. 4: magnetic resonance imaging (mri): magnetic properties of the atoms that make up the brain tissue, fmri: measures the oxygen content in the blood flowing through each region of the brain. The power of combining techniques: limitations involving where the activity took place (eeg) or when the activity took place (fmri, many techniques only provide correlational data. 5: fusiform face area (ffa) especially active when a face is being perceived. What functions are compromised (cid:449)he(cid:374) a parti(cid:272)ular (cid:271)it of the (cid:271)rai(cid:374) is te(cid:373)poraril(cid:455) (cid:862)tur(cid:374)ed off(cid:863) Localization of function: what happens where within the brain.