PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 6 Online Module : Premotor Cortex, Equipotential, Anatomical Plane

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Week 6 online module neuroscience ii: neuropsychology and cognition. Describe how the structure of the central nervous system influences behaviour: discuss the evidence supporting localization of function versus equipotential (aphasia, brain imaging studies of language) Psychologists continue to study humans with brain damage from trauma and stroke, neurosurgery, and tumours, trying to catalogue how symptoms of functional loss relate to different sites of structural damage. But no two cases of damage and behavioural symptoms are exactly alike: to gain experimental control, psychologists developed techniques to make precisely localized brain lesions (ablations) in various non-human species. He summarized his results by creating a map of mini body parts to represent areas of the primary motor cortex and the premotor cortex where stimulation caused those particular body parts to move. Involved in control of automatic behaviours (breathing, maintaining blood pressure, sleep, and alertness. Oldest part of brain: planes of section: medical professionals divide body in terms of anatomical planes of section.