PSYC340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Capgras Delusion, Facial Recognition System, Prefrontal Cortex

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

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Capgras syndrome: looks like brother (correct face recognitio(cid:374) / (cid:448)isio(cid:374)(cid:895) (cid:271)ut believe person is an imposter, clone, etc. (even though it is them, naturally thinks they have dementia, schizophrenia, reisberg opens with this syndrome. Temporal lobe may disrupt neural communication w/ amygdala (cid:862)e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al e(cid:448)aluator(cid:863: damage to communication between rt. After surgery- terrible memory disorder anterograde amnesia: knows who he is, maintained above average iq, language function normal, no extreme emotional behavior (however was on strong medication) 3: right handed people, language is from left usually; not always true for left handed people; any three options. What about vision for split-brain: corpus callous shares information between hemispheres, visual pathways, photoreceptors: rods and cones, fovea: high acuity vision, the t(cid:449)o he(cid:373)ispheres (cid:894)(cid:272)orte(cid:454)(cid:895) (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t talk to o(cid:374)e a(cid:374)other, *** look in textbook *** Cross cueing: training the language hemisphere to connect to the visual right hemisphere, use movements of the body.