Temporal Lobes: Occipital Lobes, Memory, Language, Vision, Emotion, Epilepsy, Psychosis

Temporal Lobes: Occipital Lobes, Memory, Language, Vision, Emotion, Epilepsy, Psychosis

<br /><br />Table of Contents<br />Part I: Personality & Subjective Experience - 6<br />Temporal Topography: Functional Localization - 7<br />Limbic System: Amygdala, Hippocampus -7<br />Language & Auditory Areas -<br />Vision and the Temporal Lobes - 12<br />Language & Melody -14<br />Auditory Neocortex -17<br />Cortical Organization For Auditory Perception - 19<br />Auditory Transmission From the Cochlea to the Temporal Lobe - 25<br />Auditory Hallucinations - 26<br />Auditory Receiving Area Neuroanatomical-Functional Organization - 27<br />Filtering, FeedBack & Temporal-Sequential Reorganization - 28<br />Sustained Auditory Activity - 32<br />Hearing Sounds & language -37<br />Phonemes & Morphemes - 38<br />Consonants and Vowels - 39<br />Grammar & Auditory Closure - 40<br />Universal Grammars - 41<br />Language Acquisition: Fine Tuning the Auditory System - 42<br />Fine Tuning of language Perception - 44<br />Language and Reality - 45<br />Spatial Localization, Attention & Environmental sounds - 49<br />Auditory Hallucinations - 50<br />Cortical Deafness - 52<br />Pure Word Deafness - 53<br />Auditory Agnosia - 54<br />Auditory Association Areas - 56<br />Wernicke's Area - 57<br />Receptive Aphasia - 59<br />Melodic Intonational Axis - 60<br />Amygdala - 62<br />Inferior & Middle Temporal Lobe - 63<br />'Visual" Middle Inferior Temporal Lobe - 65<br />Middle and Inferior Temporal Lobe Visual Functioning - 65<br />Hallucinations - 68<br />Inferior Temporal Lobe - 68<br />Visual Capabilities & Form Recognition - 70<br />Visual Form & Facial Recognition - 71<br />Agnosia and Temporal Loee Functional Laterality - 73<br />Visual Attention - 74<br />Inferior and Medial Temporal Lobe - 75<br />Prosopagnosia & Visual Discrimination Deficits - 75<br />Lateralization & Facial Recognition - 78<br />Agnosias - 78<br />Memory - 78<br />Memory, the Hippocampus & Inferior Medial Temporal Lobe - 80<br />Temporal Lobe Injuries & Memory Loss - 82<br />Amnesia & H.M. - 83<br />Hallucinations - 86<br />Hallucinations & the Interpretation of Neural "Noise" - 86<br />LSD Hallucinations - 89<br />Dreaming - 90<br />Temporal Loee (Partial Complex) Seizures & Epilepsy - 91<br />Auras & Automatisms - 92<br />Sexual seizures - 94<br />Running, Laughing & Crying Seizures - 95<br />Abnormal Emotions - 95<br />Temporal Lobe Epilepsy & Religious Experience - 96<br />Out of Body, Heavenly & "Other-Worldly Experiences" - 99<br />Personality & Psychiatric Disturbances - 100<br />Schizophrenia & the Temporal Lobe - 100<br />Aphasia & Psychosis - 103<br />Temporal Lobe Seizures, Psychosis & Aphasia - 103<br />Between Seizure Psychoses - 104<br />Caveats: Psychosis - 105<br />Temporal Lobe Injury susceptibility - 106 <br /><br />Part II: Occipital Lobes Vision, Blind Sight, Hallucinations, Visual Agnosias - 110<br />Primary & Association Visual Cortex - 112<br />Pre-Cortical Visual Analysis - 117<br />Neocortical Columnar Organization - 122<br />Simple, Complex, Lower & Higher Order Hypercomplex Feature Detectors - 123<br />Striate Cortex: Area 17 - 125<br />Hallucinations - 127<br />Visual Association Areas 18 & 19 - 137<br />Temporal Parietal Visual Areas - 138<br />Multiple Visual Realities - 140<br />Homonymous Hemianopsia & Quadrantanopsia - 141<br />Hallucinations - 142<br />Cortical Blindness - 143<br />"Blind Sight" - 144<br />Denial of Blindness - 148<br />Visual Agnosia & Alexia - 148<br />Prosopagnosia - 151<br />Simultanagnosia - 152<br />Impaired Color Recognition- 153<br />Overview - 153