PSYCH 3312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frontal Lobe Injury, Phineas Gage, Construction Foreman

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3312
• Professor: Rosalee Meyer

Document Summary

Prefrontal cortex (pfc) is critical for working memory & executive- control processes. Damage to the frontal lobes causes dysexecutive syndrome, impaired executive function and working memory. Dlpfc -> higher-order executive-control functions such as monitoring and manipulating stored info: the central executive in the wm model. Vlpfc -> encoding and retrieval of info (including maintenance rehearsal): visuospatial sketchpad & phonological loop in the. Working memory appears to result from functional interactions b/t the pfc a(cid:269)d the rest of the brai(cid:269)". The more concrete and specific the goals or plans that must be maintained in working memory, the most posterior the localization of their function w/in the frontal lobes. Frontal brain activity during working memory tasks. Mapping executive processing and working memory onto pfc anatomy. Prefrontal control of long term declarative memory. (cid:700)the (cid:268)ost efficie(cid:269)t a(cid:269)d capable(cid:701) (cid:268)a(cid:269) i(cid:269) the railroad"s e(cid:268)plo(cid:344)u(cid:269)til september 13th, 1848. Pfc is critical for goal setting, planning, and inhibitory control. Frontal lobe injury, so his personality changed.