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