Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Wada Test, Phineas Gage

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Marcie Penner

Document Summary

Guest speaker- loretta norton, lnorton5@uwo. ca, at western interdisciplinary research. A region of an organ that has suffered tissue. Lesion studies in animals provide insight into human brain function. Studying patients with a single neurological impairment -> link brain structures to specific cognitive functions. E. g. , post-mordem studies by broca and wernicke linked the left hemisphere with language. Tan could only say tan, although he could understand spoken language. Autopsy found a lesion in the left inferior frontal cortex. Vertakees invasion is different (cant understand what is being said) He can count to ten because of procedural memory. The problem that he is having is an impairment. Railway worker injured by an explosion: large iron rod driven through head, destroyed his left frontal lobe. Personality change after the accident: linking injury (l frontal lobe) to personality change, had some social recovery. Dorsal stream where pathway" and ventral stream what pathway"= dual steam hypothesis.