PSYC20006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frontal Lobe, Anterograde Amnesia, Amygdala

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC20006
• Professor: Stefan Bode

Document Summary

Studies the relationship between brain mechanism and behaviour. Non- invasive" technique to create virtual cortical lesions". Temporary, reversible, localised lesions could allow better understanding of the function of specific brain regions. Not enough patients with circumscribed lesions to study all cognitive functions. Lesions in a single, specialised area are rare. Recovery and brain plasticity might compensate for lesions over time patients might become quite special" over time. Patients used in research: example: hm, removing most of his hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, and amygdala led to severe anterograde amnesia, example: from using patients in research, it can be known that lesions in broca and. Wernicke areas have been linked to impairments of speech production and language comprehension, respectively. Tms- induced currents cause neurons to fire randomly, increasing the level of neural noise masking the neurons that are firing correctly [walsh & pascual-leone (2003)].