Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Myelin, Action Potential, Ct Scan

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

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Breathing: medulla, pons, and cerebellum regulate breathing, heart beat, and motor control, balance, midbrain coordinates sensory information and movement, thalamus brain"s relay station, directing nerve signals that carry sensory information to the cortex, hypothalamus homeostasis (maintains) (used for making decisions, figure 2. 2 the brain stem, forebrain cerebral cortex and, limbic system emotion. Figure 2. 3 the thalamus, hypothalamus and the limbic system: cerebral cortex higher cognitive functioning (reasoning, abstract thought, perception of time, and, two hemispheres: creativity, left side language, cognitive functioning processes in linear and logical manner, right side spatial creativity, and intuition processes in a holistic manner. Central nervous system: temporal lobe understanding auditory and verbal info, and verbal memory, parietal lobe integrates sensory information from various sources: visuospatial processing, occipital lobe visual processing, frontal lobe reasoning, impulse control, judgment, memory, problem solving, corpus callosum allows both hemispheres to communicate, figure 2. 4 the cerebrum.