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Psychology / Unit 2   Psych 0235 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Case: The Patient Who Cannot Locate Touch

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The idea

A patient who feels a touch and cannot say where on the body it landed has damage to the parietal lobe.

In practice

Touched on the forearm with eyes closed, the patient reports the sensation and points to the shoulder.

Where people slip

Sensation and its placement are handled separately. One can survive the loss of the other.

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