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| Role of the corpus callosum (200 million axons): (3) |
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1.Generation of large receptive fields
2.Competition across hemispheres
3.Synchronization of responses |
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| results after transection (cutting) of the corpus callosum |
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split brain Operation performed in human patients that suffer from severe epileptic
seizures (cutting fibers stops the epilepsy from spreading). (3 problems)
Problematic issues |
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1. Heavy medication (due to prior epilepsy), “abnormal” brain?
2. Completeness of the callosal transection?
3. Small numbers of patients |
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| Another set of “split-brain” patients |
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| Visual stimulation in split brain can.. |
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| be directed into only one hemisphere. |
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| dominance of language, demonstrated in a split brain patient |
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| this is largely intact in the split brain patient |
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| Split brain allows decoupling of |
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| two conflicting spatial programs. |
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| Each of us has an__________ in our left hemisphere. |
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This interpreter____________about why we act and behave the way
we do. |
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| The interpreter constructs our conscious reality by interpreting the ______________ data available to it |
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| Your conscious life is an ________constructed by the interpreter. |
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Sir Francis H.C. Crick
The Astonishing Hypothesis –
The Scientific Search for the Soul |
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The Astonishing Hypothesis is that “You”, your joys and
your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your
sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more
than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and
their associated molecules. This hypothesis is so alien to
the ideas of most people alive today that it can truly be
called astonishing |
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