PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Inferior Frontal Gyrus, Equipotential, Occipital Lobe

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

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If different parts of the brain activate for different tasks, we know that brain function is more localized. Can"t speak, but understand: leborgne had a type of aphasia a language disorder resulting from brain damage. This deficit in speech comprehension without a loss in speech production is now called wernicke"s aphasia: these patients appeared to have damage in a different part of the brain than. Like leborgne, they had damage to the left side of the brain, but much closer to the back of the brain than the front. Brain lesions: first methods used to identify brain structure-function relationships involved. Broca"s and wernicke"s did case studies on humans with unintended brain damage. Brain stimulation studies directly: surgeons removing parts of the brain for other medical reasons first mapped the cortex to determine the function of nearby tissue to try to avoid accidentally removing vital areas for speech, movement, etc.