Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Auditory Cortex, Visual Cortex, Parietal Lobe

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Shit that might be on the exam: glial cells are neuromodulators, split brain patients random sampling versus matching. Functional areas don"t usually match anatomical areas: some functions only take up a small portion of an anatomical area, some functions involve several different anatomical areas. Case study: mel goodale: patient df suffered from brain damage caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, object recognition vs. object grasping. 1: blindside can"t see or judge orientation, but can pick things up, ventral areas of brain damaged, but dorsal are of brain perfectly fine. 2: can"t carry out sequences of actions, can"t judge order of events, can"t predict what will happen, problems with impulse control lose emotional ability, become apathetic. Sensory vs. motor cortex: motor and somatosensory cortices basically mirror one another, motor in front of central sulcus; sensory is behind, strong connections between sensations and movement s for given body region.