Penfield study on interpretive cortex
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- Penfield study
- Aim: to describe the psychological responses patients gave when parts of their brain were electrically stimulated
- procedure
- patients with epilepsy lay on an operating table and were conscious
- Only local anesthetic was used
- Penfield stimulated different areas using the Montreal procedure.
- Recorded patient's responses.
- For over 30 years Penfield studied more than 100 cases
- procedure
- patients with epilepsy lay on an operating table and were conscious
- Only local anesthetic was used
- Results
- Visual area: when stimulated patient recorded colours and shadows and crude outlines of objects
- Somato-sensory: When stimulated it produced a tingling sensation or false sense of movement
- Temporal lobe
- patients started reliving past events but were aware of other events happening around them
- Patients felt emotion related to the experience.A sense of DEJA VU
- Temporal lobe
- patients started reliving past events but were aware of other events happening around them
- Patients felt emotion related to the experience.A sense of DEJA VU
- Conclusion
- area of temporal lobe he had stimulated must have a role in storing memories of past events
- area of temporal lobe he had stimulated must have a role in storing memories of past events
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