PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Temporal Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Hypothalamus

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

Document Summary

Lucy movie: the average person only uses 10% of their brain, lucy can use 100% 20% energy ( 2% of weight) to keep neurons firing. Risk during childbirth ** we have large craniums with we"re born, there is pressure to have large brains before you"re born. Central nervous system ( brain and spinal cord) Gyrus (gyri) = the bumps in brain ( they"re consistent from person to person) Sulcus ( sulci) = the grooves in brain (between the bumps) Phrenology- ridiculed for being a bad way of looking at brain function and structure. Equipotentiality - said brain mapping is not necessary because If you have groupings of cells, they can"t all be performing the same functions. This brain region produces language a conclusion to support localization, it is disassociated with other functions. Broca"s and wernicke"s area - if you were u to see a cut off in these you"d see a problem of language.