PSYC 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biogenic Substance, Retinal Ganglion Cell, Myelin
14 Sep 2017
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September 13, 2017: the human frontal lobe is much larger than other animal brains. The smarter we get, the more space we need in our brain. To get more room in our head for our large brains, the skull got thinner and thinner. The brain sits microns away from the skull. The folding in our brains is so intense because the brain has had to (cid:498)squish(cid:499) to fit in the skill. Things we don"t need to: lobes think about, we have landmarks to tell where one lobe ends and where another begins, precentral gyrus, postcentral gyrus, central sulcus (between the two gyrus, frontal lobe when you talk. Italians: located in front of the central sulcus, functions: motor function, memory, language, emotion, hemispheric differences, left language related movement. Using your hands: right non verbal movement somatosensory representation (homunculus the statue with, located behind the central sulcus, functions: body information, touch, muscle-stretch, prone to injury.
